Aharpo.233 net.news NET.news utzoo!duke!chico!harpo!jerry Wed Jun 3 13:03:35 1981 extra pollings 2) The systems for which it is most necessary are those which call long distance. They tend to not talk all that often, so this scheme will slow down transmission (possibly by days) on those links which are already slowest. The extra delay is in terms of number of converstations. If there is a problem they can talk more often. Presumably this will be cheaper than the current situation. If it isn't they can always revert to the current method. It was partially for this reason that I suggested the method only be used for messages of some minimum size.