> For several day mail from [log in to unmask], a list I co-own
> and manage, has arrived in a totally erratic pattern. On occasions,
> responses get to me hours before the original post, and in general
> messages take from a few minutes to close to 24 hours to arrive. I
> am appending an interesting example. Yesterday one of my
> subscribers accidentally sent out an incomplete draft of the "New
> Priest" post (Post A) at Mon, 25 Sep 1995 10:41:23 EDT and the
> complete message (Post B) at Mon, 25 Sep 1995 10:41:18 EDT. Note
> that the time difference is a matter of 5 seconds!  Post A arrived
> here at 26-SEP-1995 07:29:03.34 (Central Time) and Post B arrived
> at 25-SEP-1995 12:17:36.54 (Central Time) about 19 hours earlier.
> Is this happening to others?
 
The most useful information is missing from the copies of the messages
you posted.  That's the Received headers on each message.  They show
what systems the messages passed through on their way to you and what
time they arrived at each one.