Gerd,
Regarding your message dated: 13 August 2000...
GE> I can give some details to this problem: it seemes as if it has sometimes to do
GE> with Mark R. Harding's msgs (Sorry, no offence, Mark).
No offence taken! I have an idea though although I'm not sure how it
explains the problem ...
The reply you quoted from me was sent from my machine at work. Email
from this machine gets routed onto the internet via the SMTP server at
work which is very well run and normally extremely quick.
When I work from home (dial-up), or communicate with friends who use
dial-up connections and their ISP's servers I often notice that
messages start running out-of-sync and my assumption from examining
headers in the past is that some ISPs servers are overloaded on
occasion and take a while to distribute email.
I also have a free
email address at 'email.com' which is setup to directly forward all
email to my work account and if I mail myself (for test purposes only
of course - I promise I'm not that mad!) I notice that it can regularly
take a day or two to get the message back to me. (i.e. - it's hopeless
and I don't use it any more.)
Really, I don't know if factors such as these could be affecting how
you get you mail deliveries out-of-order (logically it doesn't seem to
make sense) but this does happen to a number of people I know and
usually there is a 'free email' service involved somewhere along the
line.
GE> I'm sure there are some more examples (I'm not sure, that /always/ Mark's
GE> message is affected), but I think this will do.
Generally for me, on TBUDL/TBBETA this effect is rare (barring the
other type of out-of-sync messages such as the messages recently from
Starc whose emails all seem to be dated mid-June time and therefore
appear way down near the bottom of the pile due to
sort-by-creation-date settings.) but it does happen a lot on the only
other discussion list I'm on.
There the readership is more diverse in client/platform where some
subscribers use PC's, some macs, some OnMail (digital TV email) and so
on with a whole host of clients on each platform. With clocks not
always accurate and differences in platforms adherring to standards
it's a wonder any of the output is ledgible at all!
For interests sake - this message is sent from home (via my server,
the ISP relay and outwards...) so it'll be interesting to see whether
there are problems in timing with this message too?
Best wishes
Mark
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