From: utzoo!decvax!microsof!uw-beave!furuta Newsgroups: net.news Title: variable length paths Article-I.D.: uw-beave.417 Posted: Sat Mar 19 19:18:06 1983 Received: Tue Mar 22 06:19:31 1983 Here's something vaguely interesting. Note the amazingly different paths taken by these two messages (I've truncated the header and the message): From: uw-beave!cornell!vax135!floyd!harpo!alb Newsgroups: net.test Title: test Article-I.D.: harpo.1533 Posted: Sat Mar 19 16:14:24 1983 Received: Sat Mar 19 16:30:42 1983 ......and number two, apparently posted only 24 minutes later From: uw-beave!cornell!vax135!ariel!orion!lime!houti!hogpc!houxz\ !houxi!houxa!houxm!npois!npoiv!harpo!alb Newsgroups: net.test Title: test 2 Article-I.D.: harpo.1535 Posted: Sat Mar 19 16:38:18 1983 Received: Sat Mar 19 16:33:45 1983