[ih] Comments re the packet radio discussion

[Bob Purvy]

I once heard that in Victorian England, at least some parts of it, the post
was delivered four times a day. Thus you *could* carry on a lengthy debate
with someone that only took a few days. Does anyone have a link to data
like that?

I was also wondering what the average time was to get a Reply to a question
under that system. Nowadays it *might *be only seconds sometimes, but for a
lot of people the average email response time is still measured in days.

On Sun, Apr 26, 2026 at 12:46 AM Yannis KOROVESIS/COROVESIS via
Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Going further back than the Victorians wikipedia has the following about
> "fryktoria" (translated from the Greek original ) as you suspect:
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>  Yannis
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>  On Apr 22, 2026, at 5:14 PM, Jack Haverty via Internet-history <
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>  I recently visited Tom Standage’s blog post about The Victorian Internet <
> https://tomstandage.wordpress.com/books/the-victorian-internet/> and
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> https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~odlyzko/> had read it.  Odlyzko’s name
> also came up in some literature about the origins of Tier 1 ISPs.  He used
> to post here occasionally.  You might find some of the Internet system
> level analysis you’re looking for in his papers.
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