On 2014-01-23, ardi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, January 23, 2014 12:21:15 PM UTC+1, Marco Marongiu wrote: > > [---=| Quote block shrinked by t-prot: 87 lines snipped |=---]
Please quote just enough so that your reply makes sense in context. Unless you have a very good reason to quote more, a good guideline is that the amount of quoted matter should be less than the amount of new matter. If the previous author was long-winded and any direct quote is too long, write a one- or two-line summary in lieu of a quote. "Play Nice on Usenet" http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm "How do I quote correctly in Usenet?" http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html "Quoting style in newsgroup postings" http://www.anta.net/misc/nnq/nquote.shtml "Bottom vs. top posting and quotation style on Usenet" http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html "The advantages of Usenet's quoting conventions" http://www.mccaughan.org.uk/g/remarks/uquote.html >> I am not saying that you should use only one server: I am saying that >> using two is bad, and that you should use four. [snip] > Reading: http://www.ntp.org/ntpfaq/NTP-s-algo-real.htm#Q-NTP-ALGO > > Two time sources cannot be split into two parties where one has a majority. > What does this majority means? A majority is a subset of a set consisting of more than half of the set's elements. In the case of a set consisting of two members each of the two possible subsets consists of one member; exactly half the set. Neither of these subsets are a majority. Majority subsets may be extracted from sets consisting of three, or more, members. The thread starting at http://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/questions/2011-January/028289.html contains some good discussion which may be pertinent to understanding how NTP finds this majority. -- Steve Kostecke <[email protected]> NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
