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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>Well, maybe you should visit Europe sometime. The Usenet delays are measured
>in *days* not hours, whole threads could start and end before I even get
>to see them.

Here the average delay is 7 days for freebsd.misc (reasonably sample size)
and 9 days for freebsd.announce (sample size 2).  Delays of 14 days are not
uncommon.

Bruce