AH>> the message arrives with the following SEEN+BY line

 AH>> SEEN+BY 1:2/9 5 6 1/0

 ml> that's an invalid seenby line... seenby's are sorted...

JS> They are not required to be sorted in type-10.  I eliminated the
JS> requirement in type-10 because it is a pointless requirement from a
JS> processing point-of-view and it imposes very unnecessary sorting
JS> routines on the code and sorting routines are notoriously
JS> inefficient.

sorry, i didn't catch that in the original...

JS> Furthermore, in order to FULLY comply with a sorting requirement,
JS> every node needs to re-sort the list to verify that it was properly
JS> sorted to begin with. Over the scope of thousands of systems, this
JS> is a huge waste of time. 

uh... in this day in time, with the advent of faster processors and many
many many systems moving to GUI environments, whats the diff?? -=B-)

JS> Of course, if people want them sorted, then they can still have
JS> sorted seen-bys in type-10 if they see some advantage to it.

>

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