Acbosgd.1842
net.general
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!mhtsa!ihnss!cbosg!cbosgd!mark
Thu Jan 14 11:19:05 1982
Re: How long?
It depends on the newsgroup and where you are. If you are somewhere
inside Bell Labs or on a key machine with a dialer (decvax, duke)
it will probably get out to 70-80% of the net within a few hours.
If not, you probably have to wait for an overnight poll, but it
will get most places (>90%) overnight. There are some far reaches
that won't get it for 2-3 days (more if something is down) and it
may take another 2-3 days for a reply or followup to get back to you.
The fa newsgroups are different. They are fed in a Berkeley which
then waits for ihnss and decvax to poll. ihnss only polls once a
day (in the early morning) - decvax calls often. So Bell Labs (which
gets most stuff from ihnss) tends to have fa stuff each morning from
the previous day, those getting news from duke or decvax get it randomly
faster depending on when decvax happens to call ucbvax (usually several
times a day).
And of course there are the delays from the time the news shows up on
a system to when any given person actually reads it - often once a day,
but some people log in on neighboring machines to get news and don't
get it that often. I have gotten replies to queries as much as 3 weeks
later, not counting the famous unix-wizards drought where it took 2
months to reach the masses before it even got into USENET!
But a rough rule of thumb is that by overnight, most of the net will have
at least had the chance to read your article.
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