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[tschamp@tiac.net (The Wizard)]

At 10:42 PM 1/18/01 -0500, Leslie Booher wrote:
>Why am I getting responses before the initial post?

This is a good question, but unfortunately, the answer is somewhat 
complicated.  Part of it is a Twilight Zone effect, the fact that emails 
travel faster in warmer sections of the country.  Fiber-optic cables get 
cold same as you and me, you see.  And in some parts of the country, they 
get real cold, depending on if they're buried and how deep.  When they get 
cold, the fiber-optic cables shiver.  It's a minute shiver, but 
nonetheless, it sets up a magnetic resonance that acts as a choke, or a 
bottleneck, for electronic traffic.  Fortunately, the internet has 
something called smart routers which can detect these slow pathways and 
bypass them, to limited degrees.  And best of all, these routers are 
usually kept indoors, where they won't get cold and shiver.  Now... what 
was the question...

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