From:	Mark A. Imbriaco mark.imbriaco@*****.com
Subject:	[ADMIN] Testing ..
Date:	Tue, 9 Feb 1999 17:32:42 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Gurth wrote:

> According to Mark Imbriaco, at 21:49 on 8 Feb 99, the word on
> the street was...
>
> > This is fairly common, actually -- by virtue of the way that Internet
> > mail (ie: SMTP) works, there is no defined delivery order or sequence to
> > messages. They will often come in what would seem to be out of order.
> > It's nearly impossible to predict. One of the prices we pay for
> > near-instantaneous communication. :-)
>
> The weird thing is that this never seemed to occur (at least not for me)
> when the list was at Hearn. After the move to iTRiBE, though, it did start
> happening. At first I thought it had to do with the listserver software,
> but that didn't seem to be it after you switched it to ListServ (which was
> what Hearn used as well, IIRC). Distance from the server seems the most
> likely explanation to me ATM.

Messages do propagate a heck of a lot faster now than they did in HEARN
days, so that could have something to do with it. There's not much grace
period involved. And incidentally, you do indeed recall correctly about
the software than HEARN used.

-Mark