mahoujin@rocketmail.com wrote:

<<CUT : Messages in strange order>>

> > It depends where in the world the original was posted from. For example, if
> > Lord Raph, living in Italy, makes a post, and Kenji, in Japan, replies to
> > it quite quickly, what with Japan being so much closer to New Zealand than
> > Italy, I'll tend to get Kenji's reply before receiving Raph's original
> > post. Am I making any sense? 8-)
 
> Yes... if we just could figure how long a message takes to travel from, for
> example, Italy to Japan. The 'light speed' term often used does definitely not
> apply to e-mail...

Um.. I think it's the different time zones. The messages' "date stamp" depends on

where you are connecting from (I think) So messages from East Asia would sometimes

would say it's from the future (Jumping jigawatts!! ^_^). For instance, I've 
downloaded my mail yesterday (December 1st) and I got messages from CuSO4 that 
was dated December 2nd. 

Of course, someitmes your server just messes up and you would get messages
from 
weeks ago... -_-;;;

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