On Thu, 9 Aug 2012, Christian Corti wrote:
  On Wed, 8 Aug 2012, Jerome H. Fine wrote:
  What I am curious about is the 20 minute delay
from when my
 reply was sent to classiccmp vs the time the reply was received
 back from classiccmp?  Is a 20 minute delay normal?
 I know that classiccmp has a delay of at least 5 minutes whereas
 another list I monitor responds almost immediately.  Any comments? 
 Classiccmp is very indeterministic. I often get the replies to a posting long
 before the original posting. It apparently depends on who writes from where. 
Ooo!  A source of truly random numbers!!!
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David Griffith
dgriffi at 
cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?