Re: @ character in http login

Gordon Burditt wrote in <124lvnhrq2vp252@corp.supernews.com> on Sun April 23
2006 00:13:

>>FYI, you may want to read to ensure that the question hasn't been answered
>>the same way you're about to answer it. It is bad form; the question was
>>answered twelve minutes prior to you posting the same thing.
>
> I did. Remember that USENET transmission is not instantaneous.
> Also, article composition takes time. It used to be that a feed
> that was getting articles 3 days old from the far side of the net
> (consisting largely of UUCP feeds) was operating unusually better
> than normal.
>
> Even now, I doubt that even all well-connected servers get a posted
> article within 2 hours of when it is posted on one of them.
>

My apologies. I didn't realize that there would've been that large of an
amount of lag between the servers.

        - Mike
Received on Mon May 1 03:02:28 2006