On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Tim May wrote:
Anyway, has anybody been doing any pings of the various lists to see which ones are most available and have the lowest latencies for redistribution to subscribers?
This would be interesting.
And shouldn't we all be making a more serious effort to drop the use of the "cypherpunks@toad.com" address, as John said some months back that he would support forwarding stuff for a while, but not necessarily forever. As it is, it just adds another hop and another potential weak link.
I think in principal this makes good sense. I am subscribed to toad and cyberpass under 3 or 4 names and I find toad is by far the quickest in turn around time to me. One thing of interest is that I was an early subscriber to cyberpass as apache@quux.. and I get that mail fairly promptly but under this nicks sub to cyberpass (much lower down on the list of subscribers) the latency is usually in hours (4-8) with discussions sometimes over before I read them, whereas my sub to toad is much prompter. I haven't done any statitics on this but I have been watching as the posts come in and procmail tosses them into various mailboxes.