From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 10 8:46:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pug.chroot.net (pug.chroot.net [208.185.49.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1106A37B5A1 for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 08:46:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeremym@chroot.net) Received: from pug.chroot.net (IDENT:jeremym@pug.chroot.net [208.185.49.166]) by pug.chroot.net (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA07527; Wed, 10 May 2000 11:46:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 11:46:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeremy McLeod To: Tony Finch Cc: matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.8 gone for good? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On May 10, 2000, at 16:43, Tony Finch spewed forth: > Matt Heckaman wrote: > > > >I sent two letters on the same day, from the same post office here in > >Montreal, Canada. I sent one letter express, one letter normal mail. > > > >Express mail was destined for New Jersey US, while the normal mail was > >destined for the UK, (England) - The normal mail letter to the Uk took > >3 days to arrive at it's location. The express mail to the US took just > >over one week. Strange, no? > > Not really :-) Royal Mail is rather swifter getting mail to its > destination than the US Mail. (It's quicker mailing US->UK than > UK->US for this reason.) possibly because the UK has less than a third the population of the US, and thus less mail, and _considerably_ less landmass to cover delivering mail. -jeremy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message