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echo: locsysop
to: Bill Grimsley
from: Niels Petersen
date: 1996-05-05 19:51:00
subject: Email

Hi Bill

 > 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.

Yeah. they arrive inthe same packet but  slightly out of order.

 > 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.

It's not the polling time, its the packing

I am chasing a problem on someone elses board and I couldn't for the life
of me figure out what was causing it.  I thought your efforts may have
given me a hint.
Thanks for that.

Regards
Niels Petersen

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