Message arrival order?

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwight.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Wed Sep 8 12:30:30 2004

>From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
>
>On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 12:02 -0500, John Foust wrote:
>> I've been receiving messages out of order: I'm seeing
>> the responses well in advance of the original messages.
>> Why would the list software do that?
>
>Same here, just in the last few days though. Didn't Jay mention a disk
>crash a week or so ago? Maybe things are just clogged trying to catch up
>since then and it'll all gradually sort itself out.
>
>cheers,
>
>Jules
>
>

Hi
 There are all kinds of variable delays in messages on the web.
Even though, one message might go the fast way, another
might take a more roundabout method.
 There is any number of reasons that they might arrive out of
order is they were sent close in time.
Dwight
Received on Wed Sep 08 2004 - 12:30:30 BST