RE: Off Topic -- Replies Seen Before Original Message

My message posted below was sent at "Date sent: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:39:05 -0800"
and I could read it on the list only after 3:20pm. It took all day...

How am I supposed to help if my replies do not make it in time ;) kidding!

Is it just me or does it take that long for everybody?

Geeta Iyer
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-----Original Message-----
From: Eric D. Pierce [mailto:PierceED_at_csus.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 3:21 PM
To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
Cc: geeta.iyer_at_sprintparanet.com
Subject: RE: Off Topic -- Replies Seen Before Original Message

dt: 6/14/2000 2:23 pm PDT (-0800: west coast n. america)
to: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
cc: geeta.iyer_at_sprintparanet.com

One fairly simple possibility is that some of the responses were addressed to individuals as well as the list, and that caused an appearance of shortcuts in responses to responses.

This message will test to see if the individual "cc" address shows up in the headers of a message distributed through the list server.

Also, some email list server software "batches" addresses of large lists into groups. This might introduce some weird latency effects, especially if there is contention of the server, and something gets backgrounded.

There might be some internet latency (eg, tracert), but I don't think that would account for differences of hours!

regards,
ep

-----original message follows-----

Date sent:      	Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:39:05 -0800
To:             	Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
Send reply to:  	ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
From:           	"Geeta Iyer" <geeta.iyer_at_sprintparanet.com>
Subject:        	RE: Off Topic -- Replies Seen Before Original Message

> Yes, this happens to me too , I was going to post the same question
Received on Wed Jun 14 2000 - 17:04:10 CDT