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 Lines: 13 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