Niels, at 21:02 on May 01 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> A quick check of sig lines in the echos which I have tagged
BG> shows that not one person is using SLMR or OLX 2.2 any more,
BG> and the problem with those is that once I pack my message base, your
BG> split messages are no longer sequential, and are bloody hard to find.

NP> Would your packing your message base account for a change in order of 
NP> messages on TML ? I.E David D's reply to you being before your original.

Quite likely.  If there is a problem tossing the mail (and there has been
lately, but I'm fucked if I know why), I have to do an immediate SQ32FIXP
to recover the BAD packet, then a repack, so the messages are then out of
sequential order.  They should all still arrive at TML in the same packet
though.

NP> Just interested as to how it happens.

It could also be due to the order in which I poll.  TML first, then David,
so occasionally my replies to him are sent to TML out of sequence.  Only by
a few hours though, so the problem shouldn't normally be obvious.

Regards, Bill

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