Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 11:46:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeremy McLeod <jeremym@chroot.net> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.8 gone for good? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0005101145410.5158-100000@pug.chroot.net> In-Reply-To: <E12pYe6-000JIg-00@fanf.eng.demon.net>
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On May 10, 2000, at 16:43, Tony Finch spewed forth: > Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> 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
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