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This paper makes a systematic attempt to understand the effect of message size on the speed and efficiency of message broadcast. It considers a realistic situation where a single message may be too large to be sent in over a single connection and hence might require to be transmitted in segments. In specific, we look into the push and pull message transfer techniques and investigate in details their...