From: utzoo!decvax!cca!Ted@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: 
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2348
Posted: Fri Jul 30 13:23:26 1982
Received: Sat Jul 31 03:05:09 1982

I assume that the reason for these appearent violations of causality are
caused by people responding to messages that appear on their local (or at
least more local) Sapce BBoards, and the "luck of the draw" causes them
arrive first.  Since the transit times through the Usenet seem to vary
wildly this seems emminently plausible.  Another cause of the problem is
that the Unix people seem the messages directly without going through the
digestification process.  Thus there is no central "clock" which keeps all
the discussions causally related (synchronous).

I suspect that the original question that prompted the "rat" reply will
filter in.  An alternatice suggestion is that the person accidently
misdirected his reply to the Space digest.  Fortunately this is not a
serious problem so the best thing to do is probably to ignore it.
	-Ted Anderson