From: elric AT wheel DOT dcn DOT davis DOT ca DOT us (Jeffrey Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: bye!
Date: 4 Oct 1996 15:53:45 GMT
Organization: Davis Community Network - Davis, California, USA
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Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:
: 
<snip>
: 
: Don't forget the news propagation delays, which probably are the real 
: reason.  Unlike email which travels immediately (provided that the 
: addressee machine is on-line), news propagate through the NNTP servers' 
: hierarchy, which takes time.  Two days is quite usual, AFAIK.

I have seen e-mail take 3 days to travel from Arizona to CAlifornia.  The 
same e-letter took 2 days to get to Washington DC.