Re: Distance between developers (Closes: #Greenland)
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 08:50:40PM -0400, JoshNarins@aol.com wrote:
>
> What I would like to see is the host with the shortest
> ping reply time, or the least number of hops.
>
> It might even be practical to know (mailing lists?)
>
> Is there such a thing as a distributed mailing list?
> Where the message from the server goes to the nearby
> recipients and one message to each of the closest other
> servers, for distribution to the recipients on their
> continent?
It's called usenet. It's really funny how often I've seen usenet get
reinvented on mailing lists, for so many different reasons :)
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