RE: Getting messages in mixed up order...

From: RayB (bpracing@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sat Nov 01 2003 - 13:09:50 EST


> -----Original Message-----
> "Mr. Plow" <adam_is_mr_plow@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> : Anyone else having this problem?
> : A lot of the time i'll receive responses from a post, before the actual
> : post..
> : Jon, are you tryin to mess with my head??? :P
>
>
> Heck no! Your head doesn't need any more messin'! ;-)
>
> As far as I can figure its just the nature of the 'net. This
> happens to some folks; I believe it is just bottlenecks temporarily
> delaying the transmission of the original post, meanwhile a reply
> goes by and by the time the original post retries, you've already
> got the reply. If you have a specific example of a post and a
> reply where this happened, I can do some digging just to make
> sure they left the server in the proper order.
>
>
> -- -Jon-

Ok Jon, I have an example for you right now.

Adam's message was sent at 11:50 AM.
I sent a reply at 12:00 PM
Your reply was sent at 12:15 PM
Bill's reply was sent at 1:34 PM

Here's the order in which I received them...
Adam's original
Bill's reply
Your reply
My reply

Hope this helps.
RayB
http://www.dragtruk.com/ENTRIES/20KM1FD2KWBP.html



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