On Jan 9, 2008 9:48 PM, R P Herrold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Chuck Esterbrook wrote: > > > The message below is the first of a thread. However, I received it > > after the 9 messages that followed it. I'm on gmail if that matters. > > > > Does anyone have any ideas why I'm seeing messages out of order? > > well, yes in general; specifics are left for header research. > > email is not (and given the random universe of possible > senders, and permissible load management and retries, probably > cannot be) designed to serialize delivery; gmail adds an > unknown filtering process with its own 'special sauce', and > may well be set to delay and to 'build reputation' of what it > decides is a related corpus of spam/ham candidates > [greylisting and RBL 4xx temporary rejects are other > approaches] > > -- Russ herrold
Well it just seems strange as it is happening quite a bit for kplug, but not for other mailing lists or conversations where I'm also using email via gmail. -Chuck -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
