Re: news servers

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From: Mats Weber
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 00:00

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In article <DJyJ8w.DFL@eunet.ch>, poole@eunet.ch (Simon Poole) wrote:

>[...]

>The problem is that you don't have the faintest idea how News works.
>
>Given reasonably equal speed paths from one News server to another,
>it is totally random from which source an article is accepted. With
>other words split second differences will determine which "Path" an
>article will take (since the News system uses a flooding algorithm
>your basic premises is wrong anyway). For the article in question 
>there are dozens of different paths to get to our site.

OK. But is there a solution to the problem ? Or will the news always take
7 days to arrive to eunet.ch ?

BTW if any internet provider in Lausanne offers a news server that works,
I'll subscribe.

(Note: I added eunet.general to the newsgroups list).

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