[Zope] Is Chris psychic?

[Toby Dickenson]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 11:20:30 +0200, Roger Erens <r.erens@eurosys.nl>
wrote:

>This is not a Zope-question but a mailing list-question.
>
>Frequently I get messages from the list which are answers to questions =
that
>haven't been asked yet.
>For example, Curtis Ruck's question was sent to me monday, 17-9-01 18:29=
 and
>Chris McDonough's answer was sent monday, 17-9-01 18:38. However, in my
>inbox they are received at 18:40 and 18:35, respectively. My, that's
>answering fast! As has been noted by Curtis already :-)
>Can I adjust some settings somewhere to get this right, because this
>ordering confuses me. Or has it to do with some mailserver along the =
way?

Yes, emails can be arbitrarily reordered during transmission. Thats
just the way it works.

>BTW, I'm forced to use MS Outlook.
>Best regards,

The email from Chris contained a "References" header that a mail
reader *could* use to work out that it was a reply to the email from
Curtis. Outlook doesnt do that.


Toby Dickenson
tdickenson@geminidataloggers.com