All,
When you receive posts out of sequence, or late, there's a reason.
For example:
1. Bob sends an e-mail to U2-Users.
2. The system sends the mail out.
3. Sally gets her mail quickly and posts a response to U2-Users.
4. The system sends the mail out.
5. Since there is *nothing* direct about e-mail delivery over the
internet, Sally's mail happens to arrive an hour before Bob's mail
in Bob's own mailbox.
6. Jan, who got Bob's mail and then Sally's elects to respond.
7. Since there is *nothing* direct about e-mail delivery over the
internet, the system receives Jan's mail two hours later than it
was sent.
8. Mike, Jewel, and Anna all send mails after Jan's, all of which
arrive in Bob's box before Jan's because of the delay in the
system receiving Jan's mail.
For those who understand UDP vs. TCP, you have to think of list mail as
a form of UDP. The right stuff shows up in the right order often enough
for the conversation to work. To fix this problem, you'd have to
redesign the methods under which the internet manages and routes mail.
- Charles Barouch, Moderator
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