Mike Werner wrote:
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>What I've done here is (try to, anyway) reproduce the way that
>the thread goes together.  When a threading mail client sorts
>out a batch of messages by thread it will look not only at what
>the message's time stamp is, it will also look at what message, if
>any, it is *replying* to.  Some email programs show this in a
.........
>And so, as you can see the reason that Paul Webster's message
>came before yours was simply the result of the threading, and
>not anything mysterious or karmic.
>--

Thanks mucho grande, Mike, your diagram sorted it all out [no
pun intended]. So much for my new theory of the privileged
classes.

best regards,
- Dan Michaels