From: utzoo!decvax!microsof!uw-beave!jim Newsgroups: net.news Title: Re: variable length paths Article-I.D.: uw-beave.421 Posted: Mon Mar 21 09:09:51 1983 Received: Tue Mar 22 07:12:48 1983 References: uw-beave.417 Those Bell machines can be blindingly fast. There is a news path from decvax to uw-beaver with only one intermediate hop, at microsoft, yet we often get news from this path: From: uw-beave!cornell!vax135!ariel!hou5f!npoiv!harpo!decvax!... In fact, we often get news at 8:00 am which was posted at 10:00 am the same day on the east coast.