Re: A86: Screwed Up Mails


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Re: A86: Screwed Up Mails




Here is Magnus' response to this:

In general, this happens if his mailserver times out (or gives some other
recoverable error) when it tries to deliver the first mail. That mail is
then dumped to the back of the queue, and then the other mail(s) may be
delivered beforehand.

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Bryan Rabeler <brabeler@ticalc.org>
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On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, UnEven Software wrote:

> 
> Bryan this is directed more towards you since you have basically all the 
> control over the ticalc servers but anyone's opinoin is welcome.
> 
> Ok recently I've received a TON of emails that are out of order.  Like 
> Guy A will post something.  Guy B will reply.  Then Guy C will reply to 
> Guy B's reply.  Logically they;d look like this in my IN Box:
> 
> Guy A's post
> Guy B's post
> Guy C's post
> 
> However I receive them like this:
> 
> Guy A's post
> Guy C's post
> Guy B's post
> 
> And sometimes its not even that good.  Like I'll get:
> 
> Guy  C
> Guy A
> Guy B
> 
> Or maybe:
> 
> Guy B
> Guy D
> Guy A
> Guy C
> 
> (BTW the letter is like who replied in chronological order).
> 
> I was just wondering if maybe the lists.ticalc.org server was screwed 
> up.  Or maybe the emails got bounced through different servers and 
> didn't make it here in order.  If you can think of a logical explanation 
> I'd like one so I can decided whether or not to write a dirty letter and 
> switch email services or just try and bear with it.   Cuz sometimes I'll 
> receive them with like 4 or 5 emails between them and they're not in 
> order at all.
> 
> Sorry for the length,
> 
> Matt
> 
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