Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!xios!!alex From: alex@.UUCP (Alex Laney) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Survey on damage by mailers. Message-ID: <483@.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 11:34:31 EST Article-I.D.: .483 Posted: Mon Nov 30 11:34:31 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Dec-87 06:23:16 EST References: <408@minya.UUCP> <2181@killer.UUCP> Organization: Xicom Technologies -- we write gateways to IBM Lines: 18 Summary: Switching order of files around In article <2181@killer.UUCP>, billw@killer.UUCP writes: > In article <408@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes: > >Hello. I'm interested in characterizing the sorts of damage that the > >existing electronic mail systems can do to mail as they move it about. > [..] > >Can you add to the list? 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. -- Alex Laney alex@xicom.UUCP ...utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!xios!xicom!alex Xicom Technologies, 205-1545 Carling Av., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada We may have written the SNA software you use. The opinions are my own.