I'm going to call "mostly wrong" on the server-to-server propagation. By 2000 the NNTP mesh was very interconnected and fast. Sites competed[1] to get messages

I'm going to call "mostly wrong" on the server-to-server propagation. By 2000 the NNTP mesh was very interconnected and fast. Sites competed[1] to get messages propagated fast. Especially text messages. Any site hooked into the mesh was going to be offered any article multiple times within seconds of it being posted. Slow articles would happen but only during outages or with sites that were not following good practice. [1] Via http://top1000.anthologeek.net/ http://top1000.anthologeek.net/