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From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Extensiveness of NNTP (was: The Dynamics of Debate on USENET)
Message-ID: <1989Oct3.203446.3845@rpi.edu>
Date: 3 Oct 89 20:34:46 GMT
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Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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In-Reply-To: msb@sq.sq.com's message of 1 Oct 89 23:35:59 GMT

In <1989Oct1.233559.8061@sq.sq.com> msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:
Mark> Well, speaking from a site which news often takes 2-3 days to reach AFTER
Mark> it reaches the city, I can sure agree that it isn't true for everyone.
Mark> Can someone in a position to know much about it please post to tell just
Mark> how widespread these NNTP links are these days?

I don't know that any survey has come up with the number of sites
running NNTP, either as a raw figure or a percentage based on the
estimated number of sites participating in USENET in some form or
another.  Most major sites run NNTP as their primary means of
receiving and disseminating news; as a wildly baseless statement, I
suspect that any site which can run NNTP does.  Even for a lot of
minor sites, local UUCP polling times seem to be on the upkeep such
that for some areas once an article hits through the NNTP site, it
can make a few local UUCP hops in the course of a quarter of a day,
too.  Very small machines with perhaps only one or two frequently used
modems are probably the bulk of sites to which propogation takes a
very long time.

Dave
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