Antonio M. Moreiras wrote:
> Hi, Danny.
> 
> I can understand your point of view. Nevertheless, I don't have an
> usenet account and the process to send messages via
> "[email protected]" is moderated and is a bit slow and
> unpredictable. Sometimes it takes hours, sometimes it takes days to get
> the message to the group.
> 
> I needed to be sure the message would arrive soon. Google gmail is very
> reliable and gives free access to the usenet. Actually, I do not see it
> as unacceptable, as it would be possible to verify the authenticity of
> the message by other means (consulting the IPs, for example, or asking).
> But, sure, I would feel much more comfortable if sending the message
> from nic.br. Anyway, thank you for your message and feedback. I will do
> everything possible to find a better solution for usenet access.
> 
> If any doubt remained about the authenticity of the message, it was
> authentic. The survey was actually conducted by NIC.br. The current
> stage of data collection ended on 26/12. There was a preliminary
> gathering between 02 and 04 December, and the main collection was taken
> between 12 and 26 December. We had about 240 thousand responses in
> "ntpdate" and 170 thousand in "ntpq -c rl" and "ntpq -p". We actually
> visited 1,141,065 possible ntp servers of a total of 2,516,029 IPs found
> (on monlist).
> 
> I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the collaboration of all. We
> are analyzing the data and will soon publish some results.

Please let us know when the results are available.  Many of us will be 
interested!

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