Unicode/ascii encoding nightmare

[Cliff Wells]

On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 15:47 -0800, John Machin wrote:
> Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> > At Monday 6/11/2006 20:34, Robert Kern wrote:
> >
> > >John Machin wrote:
> > > > Indeed yourself. Have you ever considered reading posts in
> > > > chronological order, or reading all posts in a thread?
> > >
> > >That presumes that messages arrive in chronological order and
> > >transmissions are
> > >instantaneous. Neither are true.
> >
> > Sometimes I even got the replies *before* the original post comes.
> 
> What is in question is the likelihood that message B can appear before
> message A, when both emanate from the same source, and B was sent about
> 7 minutes after A.

Usenet, email, usenet/email gateways, internet in general...  all in
all, pretty likely.  I've often seen replies to my posts long before my
own post shows up.  In fact, I've seen posts not show up for several
hours.   

Regards,
Cliff