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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
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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.


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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.