🚀 go-pugleaf

I object to the 3 stage protocol as suggested by Jerry.
I thought of the same thing long ago, and rejected it
on the grounds of long delays.  Since one site often
only polls another once a day, it would take 3 days
to get a message transmitted.  In chains, it would
take 2 days per hop.  Thus, mail from ucbvax to, say,
harpo could take over a week to get through.  If netnews
is to be used for an interactive medium for discussion,
a reply could take over a week to get back, with a 2 week
turnaround.

Clearly this is worst case, and a delay of a few days is more
likely than a week.  But there would be a significant lag,
and conversations would be way out of sync with each other.

Other, unanticipated delays are possible too.  Like this note,
which is in reply to something 2 weeks old.

	Mark