On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 22:37:07 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
> Ah come on, Clarence! :>
> The route each e-mail takes can vary from message to message, even if it
> is the same message being sent via mailing list to different people.
> And the number of 'hops' doesn't determine when they arrive either.
> Sometimes the "shortest route" ends up taking the longest, thus proving
> once again that the shortest distance between two points is *not* a
> straight line.
> l.d.
> ====
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 18:44:35 -0500, Clarence Verge wrote:
>> Sam Ewalt wrote:
>>> I frequently get replies to messages before the original message
>>> has arrived. Very confusing.
>> That's probably because the Unix server thinks alphabetical order is
>> more important than linear time.
>> I'm not kidding. <G>
You actually support my premise indirectly. This new universe we
have wandered into no longer respects time and distance.
And I'm still not kidding above - alphabetical instead of temporal
sorting annoys the heck out of me. <G>
- Clarence Verge
- Still using Arachne V1.62 ....
