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From: louie@SAYSHELL.UMD.EDU ("Louis A. Mamakos")
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Subject: Re: Time synchronization
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Date: 6 Feb 91 19:39:54 GMT
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> Answer #2:
> 
> Before nntp was installed.....

...
...

> This set of measures certainly didn't solve the problem completely,
> but it kept things more or less under control for three years, until
> the version of timed that uses the nntp protocol became available.
> 
> 					Jerry Saltzer

While `nntpd' might be more fun, I think Jerry meant to type `ntpd'.  No, there
are no hidden time synchronization functions in USENET news..

Louis A. Mamakos
NTP weenie
University of Maryland, College Park