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Out of order delivery

2000-12-07 by alt-mode

I believe the egroups server gets overloaded routinely.  Between the load on egroups
and the load on Yahoo, I see frequent misordering of conversations.  If your mail
reader has sort options, you might want to sort on the "sent" time rather than the
"received" time.

Eric

--- jwbarlow@... wrote:
> I sent the e-mail (below) last night and never received it from the list, did 
> any of you? In the past, I've made several posts which have never seemed to 
> have made it to the list. When couple with the recent phenomenon of "coming 
> in mid thread" as Ken described (i.e., not receiving initial posts which 
> generate many replies), I'm losing faith in my e-mail system, and/or possibly 
> e-groups (with all the ads and shit too). Sorry for the rant, but I find it a 
> drag for the On Topic stuff! You guys notice any problems out there?
> 
> John (not Thor Whiskers) Barlow
> 


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