speed of execution

[Richard Harter]

Richard Harter wrote: [snip]

Although propagation times do vary and it can happen that a
response arrives before the original, it is unusual and the delay
is usually minor.

In short, your comment was an overstatement.

It has nothing to do with threading (although that may affect the
end convenience) and everything to do with the raw mechanism.
Usenet articles are distributed on an "I hope it gets there"
philosophy. Any failure along a complicated path can effective
lose an article forever (at any particular news servers location).
Even if the article does make it to the server, its life there may
be severely limited by the servers own policies.

This is true enough, but not to the point.



Richard Harter, (e-mail address removed)
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Sometimes they are not coincidences at all.