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

qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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

I would need to see an example of this.  Forward it to me privately please.

> 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.

Mailman is heavily queue based ... it's got a number of queue runners
that process messages and transfer the data into other queues, which
process the messages differently.  The possibility of a message being
processed out of sequence is not out the question ... but a reply being
processed before the original post is quite odd.

david