On Sat, 19 May 2001, Gary Nunn wrote:
>
> Is anyone else receiving replies to messages before the original
> message is received?
Not right now, but it's happened before.
What happens is, if a message is longer, sometimes it takes more time for
it to get from point A to point B. If the original message is long and
the reply is short, then depending on how all the routing goes, you could
very well see the reply before the original.
In fact, this happened to me recently, not with listmail, but with e-mail
between myself and my sister. I asked her a question and the first reply
I saw made absolutely no sense. I e-mailed back to her, then got the
FIRST message she'd sent (the second one, which was the first one I saw,
was correcting a minor detail), and suddenly it all made sense.
> Now if I could get replies to messages before they are actually sent,
> that would be something to talk about...but that is a different topic.
> :-)
I think the routing would have to be weirder than is likely. ;)
Julia
