John S. Giltner, Jr. wrote:
Wade Curry wrote:
Chris Mason([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 05:34:50PM
+0200:
Ted,
You'll have to try harder with sorting out this timing issue with
your ISP.
It's quite impossible to follow a prize fight with the punches out of
sequence.
Chris Mason
I have noticed that the replies are often out of order on this
list. The funny thing is that I'm subscribed to several mailing
lists, and all of them are ordered and (sub)threaded properly. The
only lists I've ever had this problem with is this one and the tso
rexx list. I'm using Courier IMAPs with 2 or 3 different mail
readers, so I'm sure it's not the mail reader itself.
I haven't really examined this closely, but I'm wondering if there
is something slightly funky going on with the list software's
handling of the message headers. Any other observations among the
rest of you?
Wade Curry
Sr. Implementation Mgr
AT&T Services, Inc.
It may deal with where people are responding "from." Althought I
subscribe to the list, I read the post from the news group
bit.listserv.ibm-main and I normally respond to those posts. I will
e-mail the response to the list and NOT back to the news group so that
everybody on the list can see my posts.
After reading your post, I would assume that the headers from the news
group would be different that ones from the list.
Ditto on sending to the list but preferring to read from and respond
based on the news group - I find it seems to take me less effort to
ignore categories of messages in which I have no interest from the news
group, and occasionally messages of interest don't make it to the
mailing list.
Ibm-main is an unusual list on at least two counts: (1)automatic
propagation from the list to the companion news group
bit.listserv.ibm-main gives additional choices for monitoring the list,
although the reverse is not true, so occasional posts to the news group
don't propagate to the mailing list; (2)this is a moderated list, which
could result in a delay between posting to the list and distribution of
the posting.
Those who are unfamiliar with the way news groups work may not
understand that news group servers form a huge distributed network with
unknown propagation delay among the servers. Reading from an ISP's news
server virtually guarantees that some messages will be seen out of
sequence: A reader of the news group sees messages in the order they
are received by his particular news server, not in the order they were
posted to the network as a whole.
--
Joel C. Ewing, Fort Smith, AR [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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