On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Norbert Bottlaender-Prier wrote:
> PAUL TRACESKI a �crit:
> >
> > Yesterday 8/6/98 between 5:30AM and 5:30PM I downloaded only 3 messages from this
>newsgroup, timed 6:38AM,7:13AM,and 8:58AM. I would appreciate hearing if my ISP has
>loses mail, something I have long suspected. Thanx.
>
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I too noticed low activity at that time. Perhaps one should remember that
random events tend to cluster. Regularly spaced events are not random. I
would suppose that submissions to this list occur with reasonable
randomness, but possibly follow the sun in some complicated way.
Cheers,
Gordon A. Gallup Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-0111
Voice: (402)472-1230 FAX: (402)472-2879
http://www.unl.edu/physics/
