| From: | Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@***.NEU.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: A technical question: |
| Date: | Tue, 19 Apr 1994 10:58:52 -0400 |
writes:
Egil> Sometimes I get the answers to postings to this list before I actually
Egil> get the postings themselves. Does anyone know why?
To get to some places requires "hopping" through several different hosts. Some
of these hosts will queue messages in a smallest to largest order. So the
short answer gets passed through before the longer question.
Another possible reason is when one machine attempts to contact another and
fails because the target is busy, it (the question) goes to another host,
taking a longer route to get where it's going. Meanwhile the target host in
question frees up and accepts the next message (the answer) taking the short
route.
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