On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 21:24:10 GMT, Steve
wrote:

Depends on who does you newsgroups.
It posted here in 90 seconds!
Also, according to ebay's hit counter it jumped
about 60 hits in that time. Seems some systems get it faster than others.

Ok, perhaps Propagate was a bad way to phrase it. Propagation is only
one aspect. The other factor is the user. Let's say you post your
message at 5:10, and it takes 10 minutes to propagate to my server. I
do a check of new headers at 5:19, missing your post by one minute. I
get the headers, start reading messages, etc. I've missed your post by
one minute.

Keep in mind, a majority of experienced ebayers do their shopping in
the last hour of an auction - that's most likely where your 60 hits
came from.

Evan
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