At 20:19 22-2-02 -0600, Adam Lipscomb wrote:
>Now, if someone will explain what "propagation delay" is, other than
>sensible use of birth control.
In a sense, it is the same. The major difference is that it is not genes
but e-mail messages that get delayed. :-)
But seriously.
Messages get send from one server to another (a process known as
"hopping"), and eventually end up on your ISP's mail server. Sometimes this
forwarding gets delayed (could be for various reasons). The result is that
messages sometimes are sent on ("hop") to the next server in a different
order than they arrived, which results in you seeing replies to e-mails
before seeing the initial message. This can also be caused by messages
taking different routes to get from A to B.
All this from memory, BTW, so anyone feel free to correct me.
Jeroen
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