somewhere near the temporal coordinates of 6/14/02 7:01 PM, the entity known
as Jesse Garnier transmitted the following from jgarnier_at_mac.com:
>
> Thank you, Robert!
>
> Strangely, I didn't get your response via e-mail. I saw it while searching
> the archives after I posted my message. There seemed to be a lull of list
> traffic during my afternoon, and when it 'caught up' yours never came in. I
> checked my unfiltered mail just in case it got snagged somehow, but no.
>
> I now wonder if this is happening at other times; I can remember trying to
> find original posts to some 'Re:'s' and not being able to.
>
> I'm not sure what to chalk it up to... Mac.com 'silent' filtering? List
> performance? Narcoleptic sleep-deleting? ;)
>
I'd say that every few days or so I'll see replies to a message that I never
received the original of. This is distinct from the many cases where I'll
see a flurry of replies and then, hours later, see the original message that
prompted the replies.
Perhaps there's a black hole in the system -- some messages disappear and
others pass just outside the event horizon and experience relativistic time
effects... (Can you tell I've had my Star Trek fix for the evening?? :-) )
Seriously, though, I wonder just what the explanation is for these
phenomena. Is this simply a normal part of all mailing lists?
- Eric.
--Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)
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