Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: NNTP vs Cnews (was: Re: Cnews is not for me) Message-ID: <14542@bfmny0.UUCP> Date: 13 Aug 89 18:22:23 GMT References: <2828@ndsuvax.UUCP> <1989Aug12.221624.12153@utstat.uucp> <1894@ucsd.EDU> <1895@ucsd.EDU> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff) Distribution: usa Organization: ^ Lines: 10 In article <1895@ucsd.EDU> brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor) writes: > ... (BTW, our goal is to thus cut the average news >propagation delay from hours to minutes, if not seconds.) Hey, I thought conventional net.wisdom was that this was a Bad Idea. The slower propagation of news is supposed to encourage careful followups and discourage little chat wars. No? -- "We walked on the moon -- (( Tom Neff you be polite" )) tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET