RV> What Arthur then does with these echo's is entirely up to him, 
 RV> so he could pass the trapdoor echo's on to you, no problem.

He doesn't call here, and hasn't since early this year.  I only pull in
about 6-7 echoes now, so I'm really just a glorified point who happens to
be nodelisted.  But did you see the msg I just posted to Andy McArdle?

 RV> Your only problem will come from Sydney

Not even that far away in fact (woops, I think I've revealed the identity
of that un-named major uplink).

 RV> Currently Soft-Tech (Alwyn's system) is also the feed for 
 RV> Northern Territory and Sth Aust, Paradise (Barry's system) is 
 RV> the feed for Western Australia and both seem to have a laugh at 
 RV> Sydney and Melbourne as they basically only feed themselves.

But don't forget 40% of Australia's population lives in these two cities
alone.  Don't go on about interstate rivalry, we've got enough to worry
about with the IBM vs Amiga stuff!!! :-(

 RV> And now I know why the messages in this echo seem to travel the 
 RV> slowest to Melbourne, quicker to S.A. and W.A. then it is to 
 RV> there :)

Melbourne has always been slow because of the huge number of hubs involved.
 Sydney has always essentially had the one hub (now Dave Hatch 711/808),
and it DOES help.  Routed netmail to Melbourne can take well over a week to
get through, Sydney's always been much better.

More depression....

  Mea Culpa,
 Peter Deane

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