In article >,
Goomba > wrote:

> John Kuthe wrote:
> > On Jul 29, 7:26 am, John Kuthe > wrote:
> >> Let's see how long it takes this message to appear back to me...
> >>
> >> John Kuthe....
> >
> > About 10 minutes or a little more. Lousy latency! But at least it
> > works!
> >
> > John Kuthe...
>
> No one gives a rats patoot about your cheapness, John.
> Why do you waste bandwidth on these reports and tests. Aren't there test
> newsgroups you could amuse yourself with for these all too frequent
> "tests" ??

1. GoogleGropes is broken. It has always been broken and always will
be. It's just not a good method for most people to read usenet
newsgroups. I personally don't think it's a good method for posting,
either, although I've never tried it.

2. Usenet is not an instantaneous communication medium. When I
started, I figured that 24 hours was a reasonable time to expect posts
to be propagated. Furthermore, why would anybody care how long it took
from the time *they* post until it shows up on *their* server? Make a
copy if you want to know what you posted. What's important is how long
it takes to propagate throughout the entire world. I've done some
database work, and it isn't necessarily true that you use the same
database for posting and query. Very often there is a separate database
for query, with different indexes and setup. There is then a feed from
the posting database to the query database. That feed may not run that
often. If your post can be read quickly, that may just mean that you
posted it right before the feed ran. If you want instantaneous, use
your phone (or chat).

3. misc.test is an appropriate group for testing. You can test to your
heart's content and not bother anybody. There are many other test
groups, also.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA