On Friday 28 December 2007 05:47, James Knott wrote: > ... > > What I find curious is when replyies to a post appear before the post > does. I've seen some that were hours or even days later than the > messages that replied to them. That's happened on this list and > others.
Keep in mind that SMTP mail delivery is a store-and-forward process. Look at the headers of a message and see how many Received: headers there are. Each of them represents a hop (server) through which the message passed and on which it was stored and queued for outgoing delivery to the next server in the chain. If anything interferes with delivery from one particular host to the next, it keeps the messages in its queue until it can successfully deliver it or until some timeout (often measured in days) expires and the server bounces the message back to its originator. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
