Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site rabbit.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!eagle!allegra!alice!rabbit!mjs From: mjs@rabbit.UUCP Newsgroups: net.general Subject: delays in phone propagation Message-ID: <2032@rabbit.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Oct-83 10:50:23 EDT Article-I.D.: rabbit.2032 Posted: Fri Oct 7 10:50:23 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Oct-83 06:19:41 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 10 Can anyone out there in netland tell me definitively how much delay might be encountered when calling the recently announced 800 number for WWV? I've heard that there can be as much as (or more than!) several seconds, depending on the routing of the call. This would make the accuracy of such a service extremely questionable at best. Lauren, do you have the answer? -- Marty Shannon UUCP: {alice,rabbit,research}!mjs Phone: 201-582-3199