E-mail Qs & As ? ( was RE: Issues for the IBM folks )

[Cross-posted to PCTECH... Please reply there...]

wdsci-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   1. Re: Issues for the IBM folks (Scott Klement)

>The way e-mail works...  it tries to send a message.  If the receiving 
>server is too busy or not available, it either tries a different 
>server (if you have multiple mail exchangers for your domain) or it tries 
>later.  Often admins set it up to retry in 15 minutes or 30 minutes, etc.


Sure, but how do replies end up _in the digest_ before the questions? That 
happens once a week or so.

I mean, you'd think the question post would be timestamped/sequenced by 
midrange.com before it could possibly be sent out to subscribers. And until 
it's forwarded out to subscribers, there's no way that a response can get back 
to midrange.com for inclusion in a digest.

Basic sequencing never confused me. But digest sequencing??? That just strikes 
me as weird.

Tom Liotta