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In article <491qnd$mm4@seagoon.newcastle.edu.au>,
Robert Atkins <c9412417@peach.newcastle.edu.au> wrote:
>This morning I found an article in comp.unix.amiga regarding a delay in 
>the release of NetBSD 1.1 from the 17th of November to the 24th. The 
>article was posted on the 17th, it is now the 23rd. The post originated 
>from Germany. 
>
>Is it really meant to take that long or is there something chronically 
>wrong?
>
Actually, that seems to be around the high end of average delivery times
these days.  In my experience (uni account, then sydney based ISPs) when
things are running well practically all articles arrive within a week, with
most arriving by about the third or fourth day.  Alas, recently things have
taken a bit of a dive, so delays of a week or more are not uncommon around
here.  It really depends on where the article comes from, how many hops it
took to get to you, what the transmission procedure was at each hop (ie how
often news is checked and updated), and whatever's happening with network
load along the way.  It is my understanding that news is a low-priority
thing, so if FTP/WWW/Telnet traffic is high, news ends up getting delayed.

Note: the above is from personal experience and impressions, and may not
represent the true reason for the delay in news getting to your site.  There
are an enormous amount of variables involved here, and (I think) it's damn
near impossible to pin down the reason for the delay of one message.


Regards,

Pete - although a T3 link to the US and a direct feed from world.com would 
go a long way to solving some of the problems ...


-- 
Peter Williams  peterw@zip.com.au (ZIP)  Sydney, Australia.
"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research!"
Disclaimer: Any opinions lurking above are mine, all mine! Bwahahaha ...