Ah that is the answer I was looking for! Thanks. I can see that a webmail site would/might also experience the same phenomenon. I was just curious-- not that it bothered me.
Cheers Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: "Murray Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "hadley wickham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 10:25 PM Subject: Re: [R] Order of messgaes/ missing messages > 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 > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [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 > > > > > > -- > Dr Murray Jorgensen http://www.stats.waikato.ac.nz/Staff/maj.html > Department of Statistics, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax 7 838 4155 > Phone +64 7 838 4773 wk +64 7 849 6486 home Mobile 021 1395 862 > > ______________________________________________ > [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 ______________________________________________ [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
