Re: Am I being censored?...

[P3D Peter Davis <pdavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Wier wrote:

> One thing to bear in mind is that there is selective forwarding
> to the list based on length (and load factor) - thus if you send
> a long message followed up by a short one, the short one is
> likely to appear first. 

This seems like a bad idea to me.  People respond to messages in the
order in which they receive them, and those responses should, in turn,
be redistributed in order.  Obviously there are unavoidable inequities
in propagation delay for various routes on the Internet, but these
should not be compounded by store-and-forward software which thinks it
knows best.  I vote we disable this "feature," if possible.n

-pd

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