Klarinet Archive - Posting 000282.txt from 1995/08

From: John Baetens <JSBtens@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: A technical question
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 23:33:38 -0400

Rich Copeland writes:

>Here's the situation: John posts a question or comment.
>Mary follows this with a reply. Sometimes, when I am
>reading through my Klarinet messages, Mary's reply shows
>up first, followed by John's question. Occasionally, I only
>see Mary's reply! Could anyone explain this? I use a
>feature in AOL which downloads all the incoming e-mail
>messages and allows me to read themat my leisure,
>off-line. I do not use the "digest" system, I leave
>the individual messages intact.

Sorry, Rich, but I cannot explain this. I use the same setup
you do ( I assume you are referring to Flash Sessions) and
have never had this problem. Sometimes I'll even do a session
when I still have mail left to read in memory and they still come
out in order. You got me baffled.
I would suppose that if the earlier message got stuck on a longer
route to your server it could get there later than a reply on
a faster route, but I don't recall this ever happening to me.

John Baetens