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Article #6

Re: Shareware Author Listing

#6
From: Bill Kearney
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1995 14:27
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Pohl Longsine (pohl@vtdev.vt.platinum.com) wrote:
: katzlbt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Thomas  Katzlberger) wrote:
: 
: >Todd F. Herschberg (herschberg@gnn.com) wrote:
: >: I am attempting to create a freeware listing of 
: >: shareware authors and how to contact them.  If you are 
: >: a shareware author
: 
: >For everyone who doesn't want to wait for that try:
: >http://www.leo.org/
: 
: Actually, that site involves a considerable wait.  It's one of the
: slowest I've ever seen.  I think I'd rather wait for Todd.

You're not kidding. It's overseas (well, at least from the US anyway).

traceroute to hpsystem1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (131.159.0.176), 30 
hops max,
40 byte packets
 1  manubrium.digex.net (205.197.245.1)  2 ms  2 ms  2 ms
 2  gladiolus.digex.net (206.205.242.2)  2 ms  2 ms  2 ms
 3  frontal.digex.net (206.205.247.2)  3 ms  3 ms  3 ms
 4  mae-east-rt2.es.net (192.41.177.252)  6 ms  7 ms  8 ms
 5  * * pppl2-umd2.es.net (134.55.12.161)  36 ms
 6  ipgate2.win-ip.dfn.de (192.188.33.10)  129 ms *  118 ms
 7  Duesseldorf5.win-ip.dfn.de (193.174.74.205)  161 ms  135 ms *
 8  * * bro1c1.LRZ-Muenchen.DE (188.1.132.191)  2643 ms
 9  129.187.9.245 (129.187.9.245)  1835 ms * *
10  bro2cz.lrz-muenchen.de (129.187.4.254)  1867 ms *  2521 ms
11  inforouter.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (129.187.220.1)  2014 ms  1857 ms *
12  * * hpsystem1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (131.159.0.176)  1488 ms

It looks like that jump at #8 is the first of the bottlenecks.

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| Bill Kearney | wkearney@access.digex.net               | copyright 1995 
| Butler, MD   | http://access.digex.net/~wkearney/      | W.G.Kearney
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From: wkearney@access5.digex.net (Bill Kearney)
Newsgroups: alt.comp.shareware,alt.comp.shareware.programmer,alt.msdos.programmer,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.os.os2.programmer,comp.unix.sco.programmer,comp.sys.atari.programmer,comp.sys.newton.programmer,comp.sys.next.programmer,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.apple2.programmer,rec.games.programmer
Subject: Re: Shareware Author Listing
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