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From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: NNTP vs Cnews (was: Re: Cnews is not for me)
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Date: 13 Aug 89 18:22:23 GMT
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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?
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