Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/09/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>In a message dated 97-09-24 00:29:36 EDT, you write: ><< > It's not Majordomo, it's the internet nodes, amount of traffic, which > hardware is up, which hardware is down, your local ISP's current load, are > they doing a backup? lines that are up & down, power outages... basically a > world wide phenomonen. If a node and/or route goes down, messages are > re-routed, this causes backpressure, and the ripple can circumvent the > globe numerous times before things even out again. During this ripple, > messages are stored but not forwarded until available routes are not > overloaded. It's sort of like a living organism. And can be modeled as a > biological process. > > Jim >> Hi Jim: Maybe there are some additional secret rules ? Posting an article into one of the internet newsgroups needs on average 2 minutes with my local provider, 10 to 20 minutes with aol europe, and 6 to 12 hours with compuserve europe. Again, one of those mysteries of the nodes of the universe. :) Alf