[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On 28-Jan-00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > My mailbox received Petr's reply BEFORE receiving John's question.
> >
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> >
> > Has anyone else seen this phenomenon?
>
> Are you sure it's the order you're recieving them (are you recieving mail
> constantly via permanent connection), or might it be the order in your ISP
> mailbox or the sorting in your mailer's folder? I've been wondering if
> some of the out of order mail I've seen might be due to poor handling by
> the mailer of date/time across varying time zones. Then there's the
> question of whether each party's clock stays on the proper time (and zone).
>
My address on this list goes to a mailserver with a permanent wire.
I hit it from multiple locations, but the datestamps on incoming
messages are not related to when I pulled the message to my client.
I'll keep investigating.
-jn-
