On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Greg & Mary Ellen Newell wrote: > >Avery wrote: >Messages are not always received in >the same order they're posted. I guess some just float around in >cyberspace >for a while, or something. :-) > > >I pondered this fora while and I think it has to do with the time >difference. > Greg >Greg & Mary Ellen Newell >gnewell@en.com >dt945@cleveland.freenet.edu >gnewell@juno.com The time differences shouldn't have anything to do with it. Take a look at an "expanded" or Full" email header and you will see the times for both the posting and the delivery. Each of these times is followed by a four digit number representing the number of hours east of Greenwich England for that time zone. This information is used to convert all times and dates to Universal (Greenwich) by your email program to properly order them. All email programs that I have seen give you a choice of which order you prefer for your mail, as well as the reverse of each of them. I prefer "reverse received" (in Pine), which always puts the most recently received message at the beginning of my list, and messages that I have seen are never mixed with those that are new and not yet read. If you want to avoid the problem addressed in this string, don't do it the way I do-- opt for a "posted" or "sent" order. That should fix 90% of the confusion, but computer system clocks are not often checked and are not accurate. I have received some mail 2 minutes before it was sent! Bill Bailer \\\ William Bailer wbailer@cris.com \\\ Rochester, NY, USA phone: 716-473-9556 \\\ Interests: acoustics, JSBach, anthropology, piano technology
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