[governance] Anyone explain this strange texting phenomena?

[Paul Lehto]

I recently had a strange experience when a person I texted returned the
text via forward after becoming really confused as to what I meant. I was
very surprised because the text received was not the same words as the text
I sent and still had in my outbox! About half of the words matched
precisely and the other half (the first half or so) was an entirely
unrelated couple sentences that I did not draft recently and tend to think
I never drafted at any point in time (though I am not 100% sure that I
didn't draft it 2 or more months ago).

So I sent a text of four sentences but the first two sentences were omitted
in what was received and they were replaced by two sentences that I
certainly never drafted in the last 2 months and perhaps are not my writing
at all.

I realize that there are packets here and messages can be split up and thus
arrive occasionally in jumbled orders or long delays also. But it seems to
me to violate the "laws" of the "internet" (er, texting) for a message to
NOT be split into packets but somehow have unrelated language substituted
for what is probably the first packet of a two packet text, especially when
its quite likely the substituted two sentences are something I never wrote
to anybody at any time, and if I did write those substituted sentences it
could only have been over 2 months ago and to a Different person than the
one who received the confusing text from me, with only the second half of
it correct.

Whatever went on here AMOUNTS to mail tampering, even though likely no
intent to tamper, because after I sent a message, a very different message
was received shortly thereafter. This transmission was between two Samsung
Galaxy phones on Verizon share everything plan, in case that helps. Who
wants to "share" this way?

Anybody have any ideas how this can happen? It certainly undermines the
reliability of written texts as communication or as evidence if what you
sent is not what is received and the words are half different and the
substituted words don't come from any recent traffic of mine or the person
I texted with.  Thanks for any responded here or offline.
Paul Lehto, J.D.
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