[FRIAM] Causality violations

[Jochen Fromm]

That's strange, in my Mozilla Thunderbird (IMAP) e-Mail client 
I can see the response from Russel before the original mail from
Nick about "Friam Digest, Vol 37, Issue 47". Microsoft's Outlook 
displays it in the correct order:

Dates in Outlook
Russel's Mail Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 9:09
Nick's Mail Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 6:46

Dates in Thunderbird
Nick's Mail Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 6:45
Russel's Mail Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 21:02

Perhaps it has something to do with the time shift between
USA and Australia. However, the message ordering in Thunderbird 
shows clearly a violation of causality: the effect is visible 
before the cause. Causality violations are one reason that makes 
distributed and complex systems so hard to understand, see
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CAS-Group/message/1149 

-J.