Re: Listservers

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From: Oz
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 00:00

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In article <k99ogs4f8n95acpcnq18rlt6uhb7ttqa91@4ax.com>, No-one
<nospam@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes
>On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:25:05 +0100, Oz <Oz@upthorpe.demon.co.uk>
>wrote:

Actually he didn't write, but no matter.

>
>{snip}
>
>I have seen some cheap email packages that can be set up to run
>listservers.   What would be the problem of using one of these under
>an ADSL connection, which is (allegedly) only a couple of months away
>now ?    Costs should be under �50 a month.
>
>[PS - I posted this yesterday from a BT Internet account before 10am.
>It appears in d.t.pc on BT's server but not on d.t.pc on Demon.  Why?]

This is historically considered to be a propogation delay, which
sometimes resulted in delays of days for no apparent reason (but
presumably due to routing).

However someone else, elsewhere, has reported the same thing (different
providers) but even after several days the posts hadn't properly
propogated. 

-- 
Oz

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