On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 11:51 PM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 5:39 AM, alister <alister.w...@ntlworld.com> wrote: >> On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 12:43:35 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>> >>> On this list, I daresay somebody will insist that if their computer is >>> on one of Jupiter's moons it will keep running fine and therefore I'm >>> wrong. >>> >> >> Anyone on a moon of Jupiter would not be able to get internet access >> (TCP/IP time-outs mean that even Mars is outside of internet range. The >> Moon at 1.3 light seconds might manage it ) so they could not be posting >> here ;-) > > Well, TCP might be problematic, but radio transmission from Jupiter > would still be faster than RFC 1149, which in its only field test took > an average of 5200 seconds to send round-trip pings over a distance of > 3 miles.
And I'm sure someone could figure out a "netnews-over-UDP" system. After all, most people just post without thinking about responses anyway, which is exactly what UDP is great at... ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
