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From: Jai Tao <jdfalk@****.COM>
Subject: Re: A technical question:
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 12:40:49 -0400
On Tue, 19 Apr 1994, Egil Geir Brautaset wrote:

> Sometimes I get the answers to postings to this list before I actually
> get the postings themselves. Does anyone know why?
>
That happens to me, also. It has to do with the path the message
takes to get from HEARN.nic.SURFnet.nl (where _is_ Hearn, geographically,
anyway?) to your mailbox -- sometimes different messages will take
different paths.
I've also noticed that shorter messages often get through faster
than the longer ones.

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