Note that if this bothers you then you could try a web-based email systems (e.g. yahoo, hotmail, etc.) to receive your r-help messages since the path to any of them would be independent of your particular location on the net.
Jim Brennan <jfbrennan <at> rogers.com> writes: : Thanks for the answers. It is interesting. I had thought everything would go : to a central server and then be sent out in order from there, but I guess I : just don't get the topology of the web. : I think there may be other issues though, since sometimes there are very : long, what seem like random, delays. : Jim : ----- Original Message ----- : From: "Baskin, Robert" <RBaskin <at> ahrq.gov> : To: "'Spencer Graves'" <spencer.graves <at> pdf.com>; "Jim Brennan" : <jfbrennan <at> rogers.com> : Cc: <r-help <at> stat.math.ethz.ch> : Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 12:38 PM : Subject: RE: [R] Order of messgaes/ missing messages : : : > It has to do with the topology of the web - if you are web-wise closer to : > the responder than the original sender you can receive the answer before : the : > question - even if both answer and question go only to the list. : > : > I learned this suscribed to SAS-L when I was at UF - I was downstream from : > Bob Hamer (then at VCU) who, at the time, seemed to answer many of the : > questions on SAS-L. He would get the questions quickly because at VCU he : > was (web-wise) close to a source of sending - I would always get his : > responses before the original question because he was my nearest neighbor : on : > the web - after he moved to Rutgers the whole phenomenon stopped (and if : I : > recall John Williams became primary answerer). : > : > I wondered how long it would take before someone on this list asked about : > it. I see the answer before question phenomenon on this list quite : strongly : > and for me it is often Spencer Graves' answer I see first - like this one : :) : > Bob : > : > : > : > : > -----Original Message----- : > From: Spencer Graves [mailto:spencer.graves <at> pdf.com] : > Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 12:13 PM : > To: Jim Brennan : > Cc: r-help <at> stat.math.ethz.ch : > Subject: Re: [R] Order of messgaes/ missing messages : > : > : > Might this depend on whether someone responds to all or only to : > the list? If one responds to all, then the originator should receive 2 : > copies, If s/he subscribes to the list. The copy via the list is often : > delayed hours by the listserve. Might this explain the issue? spencer : > graves : > : > Jim Brennan wrote: : > : > >I am curious as to why I quite often receive responses to questions on : > >the help before receiving the actual question. : > > For example Mr Graves has responded to Mr Lumley's response to Mr : Wegelin : > yet I ave not received Mr. Lumley's post while I have received the other : > two. : > > : > >Cheers, : > > : > >Jim : > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
