From: Apache <apache@bear.apana.org.au>
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 1997 14:23:25 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Status of Cypherpunks list sites?
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On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Tim May wrote:

> Anyway, has anybody been doing any pings of the various lists to see which
> ones are  most available and have the lowest latencies for redistribution
> to subscribers?

This would be interesting.
 
> And shouldn't we all be making a more serious effort to drop the use of the
> "cypherpunks@toad.com" address, as John said some months back that he would
> support forwarding stuff for a while, but not necessarily forever. As it
> is, it just adds another hop and another potential weak link.

I think in principal this makes good sense. I am subscribed to toad and
cyberpass under 3 or 4 names and I find toad is by far the quickest in
turn around time to me. One thing of interest is that I was an early
subscriber to cyberpass as apache@quux.. and I get that mail fairly
promptly but under this nicks sub to cyberpass (much lower down on the
list of subscribers) the latency is usually in hours (4-8) with 
discussions sometimes over before I read them, whereas my sub to toad is
much prompter. I haven't done any statitics on this but I have been
watching as the posts come in and procmail tosses them into various
mailboxes.