Within the last 24 hours, we've been getting widespread reports
of Second Life instant-messages suddenly being delivered weeks
after they were originally sent. Initially it seemed to be a
single burst of such messages that were unclogged from some
creaking subsystem and delivered in a bunch, but it seems not to
be the case.  We've experienced this ourselves over the last day
now, with messages suddenly popping out of the Second Life grid,
as if they were fresh and new. Initially it seemed that it was
messages that had gone undelivered in the last five weeks, but
we've just seen two that were originally sent, and apparently
remained undelivered for over six months.  In many cases there's
very little to distinguish the delayed messages from messages
that are fresh and new, and it is causing considerable
confusion, as more of these formerly undelivered messages
continue to emerge from the system in no chronological order.
For organizations and businesses the confusion ranges from
relatively mild non-sequiturs to