Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!decwrl!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!robobar!ronald From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo) Newsgroups: trial.test Subject: Re: Test. Message-ID: <1990Sep16.003051.13015@robobar.co.uk> Date: 16 Sep 90 00:30:51 GMT References: <1990Sep14.100425.317@newcastle.ac.uk> <1990Sep14.221426.4567@robobar.co.uk> Organization: Robobar Ltd., Perivale, Middx., ENGLAND. Lines: 22 In article tale@turing.cs.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) writes: > I don't know what the ukc!mcsun!uunet > link is like for speed Both hops are on leased lines paid for by the UKNet(ukc!mcsun) EUNet(mcsun!uunet) subscribers because ukc and mcsun are respectively the UK and European official backbones. The slowest part of the whole thing is probably ukc's CPU shortage ;-) > trial.* itself seems to be on the sleepy side but I do not think this > is due to terrible connectivity problems. Um. Personally, I think trial.* is misguided, so perhaps the net.at.large is being sensible about this :-) trial.test is the only trial group I'll read (seeing as it seems to serve as trial.config as well :-) but I'll carry trial. Live and let live. Thanks for the responses, everyone. Looks like trial's OK from the physical connectivity point of view. Have a nice day y'all. We now return you to the regularly unscheduled tests. -- my .signature is on holiday