Oo-err.
www.neoseeker.com/forums/index.php?fn=view_thread&t=434752
( Noit happy baby orangutan, Thu 9 Sep 2004, 23:20, archived)

I'm too lazy to try it out
But I don't believe it
(Fido Dido, Thu 9 Sep 2004, 23:24, archived)

What a bunch of 'tards.

(Marwood, Thu 9 Sep 2004, 23:25, archived)

but have you tried sending two clean emails at the same time and seeing which arrives first.

what with the amount of data that email servers have to cope with, it's not surprising that two emails sent both at the same time end up being processed minutes apart.

edit: additionally, the way some servers work is that they'll process mail in batches every couple of minutes, so if one email gets in one batch and the next in another, then there's going to quie obviously be delays incurred.
also, the more servers that the mail has to be processed by, the longer the delays get.

/silliness
/anti-conspiracy
( sex and dougs and rock n roll, Thu 9 Sep 2004, 23:29, archived)

That's what I was going to say
But that would've required me to engage my brain...
(Fido Dido, Thu 9 Sep 2004, 23:30, archived)