[gui-talk] admin: posts out of order

[Doug Lee]

I read mail in order of actual receipt, and I have noticed that
list mail can occasionally arrive out of order due to network
bottlenecks, messages taking different routes, server down time,
me being offline, etc.  This is not really something that can be
fixed though, because of the number of variables that determine
exactly how fast each message gets to your ISP.

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:36:29AM -0600, Steve Jacobson wrote:
Laura,

Dave is the administrator of this list and he may have more comments.  Unless you are reading each message as it comes in, the order you see them is usually 
determined by your mail program.  The order is often one of the properties of each mail folder.  If you filter messages into specific folders, check the properties of the 
folder into which this lists mail is placed.  Another possible issue is the specific date and time upon which a list is sorted.  If you use the date and time sent, sometimes 
the time zones can cause mail to appear out of order.  There are a number of ways in which mail could be received and sent out of order, but I don't know of 
anything that would cause list maile to be sent in revers order because we would not know when you were going to retrieve mail.  Therefore, I am thinking it is most 
likely that one of your folder settings needs to be changed or that something else happened as a matter of coincidence that put the messages out of order.

Best regards,

Steve

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:00:33 -0600, tribble wrote:

>Hi Dave or whoever admins this list.
>For some reason I am getting the mail posted to this list out of order --  
>sometimes in reverse order. This doesn't happen on any of the other nfbnet 
>lists I'm on.  Is there a reason for this?
>Thanks.
>Sorry to clutter the list.
>--le


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