Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 12:52:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeremiah A Blatz <darklord+@cmu.edu> Say that soda hasn't received any messages for 5 hours before 10:14, then receives 4 between 10:15 and the time Angie's mailer connects to port 25 of soda's remailer. You wait until soda spits out 4 messages, then the 5th is Angie's. If the messages are been randomly ordered, you do not know this. Angie's message could be the first message sent out after it is received. I was attempting to address the possibility of unnecessarily long delays and message queue build up during a period of high use. During a low usage period, the scheme that I outlined should act like the one that Jim choate outlined. If there are long enough delays between messages, none of the proposed schemes interferes with traffic monitoring. Rick