Re: mailing list archiver chewing patches

On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
>> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>>>        * A sends a message
>>>        * B replies, cc'ing A and the list
>>>        * B's reply to list is delayed by greylisting
>>>        * A replies to B's reply (cc'ing list)
>>>        * A's reply goes through immediately
>>>        * B's reply shows up a bit later
>>>
>>> That happens pretty frequently IME.
>
>> Yeah - and sometimes the delay can be DAYS.
>
> Greylisting wouldn't explain a delay of more than an hour or so.
> OTOH, if B's reply got held for moderation for some reason, then
> yeah it could be days :-(.  But in that case the rest of the list
> didn't see it in real-time either, so having it show up out of
> "logical" sequence in the archive doesn't seem like a terrible
> reflection of reality.  I'm just concerned about the threading not
> being sensitive to skews on the order of a few minutes --- those
> are extremely common.

I not infrequently receive messages out of sequence by time periods
well in excess of a few minutes.

Don't know why, but I do.

...Robert