That's strange, in my Mozilla Thunderbird (IMAP) e-Mail client I can see the response from Russel before the original mail from Nick about "Friam Digest, Vol 37, Issue 47". Microsoft's Outlook displays it in the correct order:
Dates in Outlook Russel's Mail Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 9:09 Nick's Mail Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 6:46 Dates in Thunderbird Nick's Mail Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 6:45 Russel's Mail Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 21:02 Perhaps it has something to do with the time shift between USA and Australia. However, the message ordering in Thunderbird shows clearly a violation of causality: the effect is visible before the cause. Causality violations are one reason that makes distributed and complex systems so hard to understand, see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CAS-Group/message/1149 -J. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
