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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Sending email from CompuServe to th
Message-ID: <45900260@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 14 Aug 89 14:34:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Aug 14 09:34:00 1989



>	Nope.  This just ain't true.  Mail between Internet sites takes
>	place practically immediately.  Most mail gets delivered in a
>	matter of minutes, regardless of how far apart the sites are
>	physically. 

Depends not on physical distance, but on number of links and
how busy they are. For us at b.scs.uiuc.edu two hours is a reasonable time.
One mailer it uses traces progress of mail at least partways, and it
can get bogged at a couple of places.

Doug McDonald (at uxe.cso.uiuc.edu, NOT b.scs.uiuc.edu, which I hate
as the progress messages clutter up my screen)