Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!amdcad!phil
From: phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Survey on damage by mailers.
Message-ID: <19598@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: 17 Dec 87 09:32:01 GMT
References: <408@minya.UUCP> <2181@killer.UUCP> <483@.UUCP>
Reply-To: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices
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In article <483@.UUCP> alex@.UUCP (Alex Laney) writes:
>What I find annoying, is mail spoolers that reverse the order of the mail
>passing through them. This makes USENET news article replies arrive before
>the original article! This, I know, is not damaging to the articles themselves,
>but is part of the mailing/transport process.

This is, I believe, due to a misguided optimization by some uucps
which send the shortest files first. Do modern (ie HDB) uucps do so? 

-- 
Let's go to the mall and see how long people will wait for our parking space!

Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or amdcad!phil@decwrl.dec.com