The TCP protocol sends a message as a stream of packets. When packets
are lost over a particular link in the path from the sending machine at
ETHZ to a recipient parts of the message will be re-transmitted. A
message sent after another message can arrive before it if it
experiences less packet loss on its path through the network. It's
statistical, you see!
Murray Jorgensen
hadley wickham wrote:
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.
I use gmail and still often recieve replies before the original
message. Why should using webmail make a difference? Surely it's the
r mailing list server that does all the sending (apart from specific
individual replies)? And the listserve must recieve the reply after
the original, so it seems to me that it must be the time it takes to
get between the server and you that is varying. Or is the listserve
sitting on some emails before sending them? One test would be to see
if we recieve emails in the same order.
Hadley
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