Google's netnews speed (was Re: pyBoards.com)

[Peter Hansen]

Aahz wrote:
> 
> Peter, you're thinking less clearly than usual.  ;-)  My point was that
> the delay does *not* come from the time it takes to propagate to Google,
> but from the delay required to index and publish the index.  

(Slapping forehead...)  Of course!  Indexing, right... that.  :-)

I was picturing Groups as nothing more than a big web interface to
Usenet.  Indexing it, too, well that just smacks of overkill, now,
doesn't it?  ;-)

Thanks for the head-straightener.

-Peter