From: John Beckett 

Mike N.  wrote in message
news::
>    I was able to reproduce this and see the same thing on the Barkto news
> group.    The news server actually switches into 'cripple mode' - sending
> one character at a time and waiting for the Ack before sending the next
> character.

Sounds interesting. If you felt like it, and if you had a complete capture
from the opening of the TCP connection to barkto, consider emailing it to
me on the off chance that I can see something.

John

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