Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/14

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Subject: Re: [Leica] time warp(ed)
From: Javier Perez <summarex@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 01:54:12 +0000
References: <20020315014456.96695.qmail@web21309.mail.yahoo.com> <3C91945D.7070700@attinasi.org>

I wonder if there's a record for the longest wayward packet.

Marc Attinasi wrote:
> 
> Sometimes the packets get all uppity and decide to subvert the
> shortest-path computations of the Internet backbone routers and
> switches.  They are wily, those packets, and sometimes they figure out
> how to get a free trip around the planet, sightseeing all the way -
> always wondered what it looked like in a switch in Shanghai or a
> multiplexed DS3 trunk in Dulles - well, they sometimes get lost too, and
> it takes them a long time to find their way back to their home network
> segments (other packets generally won't help them because they are
> secretly jealous of the free-wheeling ones, and often the wayward
> packets are just plain reluctant to ask for directions).  This
> gallivanting and getting lost makes them late, hence the perceived delay
> in the message.
> 
> Or, maybe the email server is just slow - bogged down or crashed, that
> could be it too ;)
> 
> Cheers!
> - marc
> 
> Photo Phreak wrote:
> 
> >    Can any of the computer gurus on this list explain to
> >me how a message I posted early yesterday just showed up in
> >my inbox a few minutes ago ?
> >
> >    It is a puzzlement to me......
> >
> 
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