Radio Flyer wrote:

"johndobbs" wrote in message
ups.com...
Wow!! Took ONE minute! That's lots better than the 5 to 9 hours! It's
rough playing with newsgroups when you're not at home and using other
equipment and can only post via the web. I like it!!

When was there ever a 5-9 hr delay. I get posted within 10 seconds

Before Google changed their system, if you posted a message through your ISP's news server, it could take 5-9 hours before it would show up in the Google Groups system.

So folks who read news groups through Google wouldn't see a message until it was several hours old.