Read the path lists from a large bunch of emails and get back to me on that.
-- graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" ----------------------------------- Ryan Brooks wrote: > graywolf wrote: >> Internet paths are a drunkard's walk. One email may go directly from a >> to b, another may go from a to z to h to g to y to k to e to r to b. >> Obviously the first message would arrive sooner than the second. It >> works amazingly well unless some server along the way accepts the >> message and then crashes before sending it on. To prevent that from >> causing a problem mail-servers send it out along several paths, and >> after it arrives the final mail-server says I already have that message, >> > That is absolutely NOT how email delivery works. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
