From: | Jim Cadwallader |
Date: | 2 Jun 2001 at 15:32:40 |
Subject: | Re: A mystery |
Hello Don
On 02-Jun-01, you wrote:
> If you post a mail to a list, sometimes it comes back to you instantly
> and at other times there is a delay of several minutes or even hours.
>
> Question. Where is the data during that interval? It can't just vanish
> - it has to be stored somewhere.
>
> Is there a telegraph operator somewhere in the Internet whose job is to
> copy emails by hand and pass them on?
>
> Neil ?
Lots of 1s and 0s get jammed in the "electric string".
Regards
Jim Cad*
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