Email (was THREAD CLOSED: [B-Greek] Mk. 15:24)

William Zeitler william at faithfulbible.com
Thu Mar 10 14:45:34 EST 2005


Yes, packet delivery is more of a stochastic than deterministic process
(check out how TCP/IP works -- the backbone of the Internet).

You could send three emails, "A", then "B", then "C", and receive them OUT
OF ORDER at surprisingly varying times. I've had email take DAYS (rarely,
but it does happen).

Near as I can tell, even though the fur flies from time to time, we're all
gentle-people enough that when the Moderator kills a thread, we all abide by
it -- as soon as we get the 'kill' message!

william zeitler

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Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 11:27 AM
To: Carl W. Conrad
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Subject: Re: Re: THREAD CLOSED: [B-Greek] Mk. 15:24



>
> From: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
> Date: 2005/03/10 Thu PM 02:20:17 EST
> To: "A. Dirkzwager" <dirkzwager at pandora.be>
> CC: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: THREAD CLOSED: [B-Greek] Mk. 15:24
> I do appreciate the apology, but let me take this opportunity to reiterate
> some advice that I have given repeatedly before: before sending a response
> to an earlier message on-list, it would be wise to check the incoming
mail.
> Of course, it is true that this repeatedly offered admonition has been
> repeatedly ignored. I hope we've now seen the last of comments on this
> matter of "Jesus was Caesar."

I think one of three things happen:

1) Most common, people simply respond without reading all the posts.
2) Occasionally, it takes time for whatever reason for the message to get
from the server to people's inboxes.  This is more common on yahoogroups,
but can happen almost anywhere (one time, as a moderator, I had a "kill the
thread" message delayed nearly 12 hours, and a lot of people chimed in
before they got the message).  Some folks got it right away, others didn't
(I was one of the others, so there is some objective reality to this
theory).
3) Not that anyone would actually do this, but I've heard tell on some lists
that people will actually ignore the moderator's instructions and post
anyway, feigning ignorance, as an opportunity to get in the last word...

N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Adjunct Faculty, CUTS
http://www.cuts.edu
bhofstetter at cuts.edu

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