[news.misc] Reversed-date distribution

daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown) (08/06/88)

  Can anyone comment on the phenomenon of "Re" articles arriving
before the article to which they refer?  I don't recollect a
discussion of the reason recently, but then my net-reading is
discontinuous...

 --dave (well, before this year it was discontinuous) c-
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