Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!tale 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 References: <35033@apple.Apple.COM> <46115@bbn.COM> <35037@apple.Apple.COM> <147@isgtec.UUCP><1989Oct1.233559.8061@sq.sq.com> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 22 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 -- (setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))