On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Eugene van der Pijll wrote: > > > I agree that it's very late in the game for these changes, and I'm > > open to alternative suggestions. > > Time of submission? It has always been my favorite :-) . And I think > there was more than 24 hours between Rick's and Stephen's solution, so > time zones have had no decisive effect. >
I don't like time of submission. (In general, not just this time. :-). There are time-of-week effects as well as time-of-day effects. However, it might do as a tie-breaker-tie-breaker in future. When properly announced in advance, of course. :-) After all, it can be easier to catch up when you know the target. I might never have got down from 54.563 to 54.559 had I not known that the latter was possible. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "Reserve your 2 hour delivery time, which means you'll see the same special offers as you would instore" - Sainsbury's internet shopping instructions
