At 12:20 PM 10/2/95, Peter Trei wrote:

For those curious about the latency, I'm posting this at 12:08, on the US east coast. How long did it take to reach you?

I got it at 09:14, Pacific Daylight Time, so there appears to be no lag. I've generally found that lags are on my end, that my system (got.net currently) is delaying mail from _all_ or _most_ mailing lists. (This was particularly the case last week, when Cypherpunks mail stopped for many hours at a time, then arrived out of sequence when my ISP was (presumably) able to receive the resent mail.)

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Not to pick on Peter Trei, as this happens all the time, whenever a hot issue appears.

Short of implementing some content-sensitive form of CSMA/CD, I don't see what we can do (but lowering the list latency would help a lot).

Well, the main issue with the "Europe to Ban Crypto" reposts was that several people reposted the same press release over a period of several days, and the case I cited here was where it was posted a week later. I can't see how a latency, even a serious latency of several hours, could cause this to happen. Mostly I think people should try to first of all, _write original stuff_. That is, write their own analyses of things. Their own essays, reactions, etc. Then, secondarily, post pointers to longer stuff. Thirdly, and less to be desired, forward articles. --Tim May ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^756839 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders are just speed bumps on the information superhighway."