Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cica!iuvax!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald 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 Lines: 14 Nf-ID: #R:<8908130008KP@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY:-37:uxe.cso.uiuc.edu:45900260:000:572 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)