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1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: How far did this get?
Article: 8979 of alt.hackers From: nite@pc164153.oulu.fi (Hannu Kotipalo) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: How far did this get? Date: 3 Nov 1995 13:50:34 GMT Organization: Zombies TEAM Lines: 29 Approved: by KBS Message-ID: 47d6na$7pp@ousrvr3.oulu.fi NNTP-Posting-Host: pc164153.oulu.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Status: RO
This is my path from Matthew's post: Path: ousrvr3.oulu.fi!news.csc.fi!news.eunet.fi!EU.net! newsfeed.internetmci.com!chi-news.cic.net!simtel! harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro! unsw.edu.au!mettw >Well, it got to Seattle, at least. Here's the Path: it took. I kinda >wonder what the hell pipex is doing, though... > >Path: hhhh.org!news.accessone.com!news.sprintlink.net!tank.news.pipex.net! > pipex!wave.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex! > news00.sunet.se!sunic!uunet!in1.uu.net!uchinews!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu! > uwm.edu!homer.alpha.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com! > chi-news.cic.net!simtel!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au! > news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!unsw.edu.au!mettw > So why a post from Australia goes first to USA then to Europe, Sweden (which is neighbor to Finland) and the back to USA? Path here to Finland does not go throught Sweden! I quess Pipex has found a faster newsfeed from Sweden than local neighbors... ObHack: Sneaking 'caveman' out from Jet Set Willy II (MSX version). -- nite
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