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From: nathanm@hp-pcd.UUCP
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Subject: Usenet and causality
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Date: Mon, 14-May-84 13:02:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 14 13:02:00 1984
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Nf-From: hpcvre!nathanm    May 14 12:02:00 1984

This is not a request for a deep discussion of Physics
or Philosophy.  Just a point of curiosity for me:

Is it ever possible for the net to violate causality?
That is, is there any possible scenario in which a reply
can get somewhere (presumably as an orphaned response)
before its base note does?

Personally, I can't envision such a scenario, but
then I didn't know until reading net.sport.baseball last
weekend that it IS possible to have more than three outs
in an inning.  Any ideas?

Nathan Meyers
hp-pcd!nathanm