Re: [ST] what has been going on with the "digest" version

[Blake Sobiloff <sobiloff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Folks, we're communicating over this thing called "The Internet." It 
doesn't guarantee any particular quality of service. Emails sent to the 
list don't always go directly from you to the list server; they may have 
to go through several intermediate computers, any one of which may be 
puking bits on the floor and generally making computer administrators 
wail and tear their hair out.

Similarly, emails sent from the ST list server to each and every one of 
you are likely to have to go through several intermediate computers 
before they reach you. Again, there are multiple opportunities for these 
computers to selfishly hold on to our precious emails for reasons beyond 
human understanding. (There's rumor that Bill Gates may know, but he 
doesn't seem to be talking.)

Lastly, once the cherished list email finally reaches you, its quite 
likely that your email program sorts your incoming email by the time it 
was sent. Unfortunately, different computers have different ideas of 
what is the correct time. Hence, during rapid email exchanges--always of 
a moderate manner on our list, of course--it is quite possible that 
someone may send an email reply that gets stamped with a time and date 
that is earlier than the original message's. This results in the reply 
showing up in your "Inbox" ahead of the original message.

If the individual messages within any single digest are ordered 
correctly, then rest assured that everything is happy with our list 
server. However, if you are receiving the digests out of order it likely 
indicates that some computer between you and the list server is having a 
hard time. There's nothing you can do about it, short of saying a small 
prayer for the poor system administrator whose pager is going off for 
the third time in the middle of the night.
- -- 
Blake "Dawgbert" Sobiloff <sobiloff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
San Jose, CA (USA)
"The problem with smoking guns is that you can
not find them until after they have been fired."


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