Re: Time lag on messages

[MacWheel99@xxxxxxx]

The other side of this coin is that sometimes I get duplicates & sometimes 
triplicates.  I am not talking about the rare occasions where we send same 
message to 2 or more lists because the topic impacts more than one list.

I get replies to messages I have not seen, then hours later get the messages 
that were replied to, but I also get a message, then hours later get the same 
identical message again.

My speculation is that there are traffic jams on the internet ... some data 
just won't go through, so it gets put into some holding area to retransmit 
retry a few hours later.  Then 15 minutes later some more traffic comes down 
the same pike headed in the same direction, and the road is now clear so the 
15 minutes later traffic goes right on through without being challenged while 
the earlier traffic is still in a holding pen to try later.  This is my 
tentative explanation for receiving answers to original posts before the 
original posts.

I also speculate that there are traffic jam fender bender accidents on the 
internet ... some data was in the process of going through & something went 
wrong, so the data needs to be retransmitted, but how do the ISPs along the 
line know a prior transmission did not in fact successfully reach its target 
... it is possible in my eyes that if something was 99% transmitted ... the 
target might actually get 100%, but the sender think the last bit is missing, 
and end up retransmitting.  

Alternatively consider the scenario of an ISP that goes down with messages in 
a buffer.  Depending on the nature of the go down, there might be loss of 
records on exactly what got passed along & what did not, so some that got 
passed along gets passed again.

This is my tentative explanation for receiving duplicated posts.

I do not really care a whole lot except the issue of if I do not get e-mail 
that I did not know was coming to me so I do not know what is missing.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
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