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Steve Calvin
 
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Scott wrote:

> In article >,
> Steve Calvin > wrote:
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>>Well, given that my original post was time stamped at 2:40PM and my
>>"retraction" was time stamped at 2:45 and you're reply was time
>>stamped at 2:54 I rather doubt the sincerity. But it really doesn't
>>matter to me one way or the other. No apology necessary, but
>>appreciated. I'll chock it up to slow proliferation of posts through
>>the servers.

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>
> The time stamp is when it's sent to your news server. However, it may
> not reach other readers' news servers until much later--and the time
> differential isn't necessarily uniform for different posts by the same
> user.
>

I believe that I said that. See the above sentance beginning with
"I'll chock it up..."

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Steve

If the speed of light is 186,000 miles/sec., what's the speed of
darkness?