At 17:35 01/28/2000 Friday , Roger Fajman wrote:
>> GET listname (HEADER
>> UNLOCK listname
>>
>> is sent by one of our list owners. At least one list owner has done this and
>> got puzzled by the result.
>
>In general, there's no guarantee that mail will arrive in the order
>that it was sent or be processed by LISTSERV in the order it was
>received. So it's not good to depend on that.
The follow-up experiment would be to place both commands in a single email message and see if anomalies result.
/Pete