[CentOS] Re: Centos 5 timeline?

[John Summerfield]

Scott Silva wrote:

> 
> If everyone had a threaded mail client, you could just reply with no previous
> content, and follow the thread.

Not really. Threads fork, as you and I reply to Fred, then Joanna 
replies to both...

Besides the random nature of folk's replies to the thread, the order of 
email set to point A (centos.org in this case) to point B (my email 
server at ns.demo.lan - yes, that's where my email goes to) is not 
guaranteed.

A server along the way finds the end-point is unreachable, the mail's 
queued. Next time, the path is clear and the mail goes straight through. 
Some time later (an hour or so), it retries queued mail and it goes through.

Often, the head of thread is well down the queue by the time it arrives 
here. My example is extreme - ns.demo.lan is both behind a firewall, and 
separated from the Internet by a dialup modem. Often, it's only up four 
hours in the day.

Less extreme examles abound - how often does Google.com fail to resolve 
on one attempt, then work fine the next?





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