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The case of the 500-mile email

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  The case of the 500-mile email Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-14 10:33 +0000
    Re: The case of the 500-mile email RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-15 01:42 +0000

#4368 — The case of the 500-mile email

Note, this one's been around a while, but if one's never read it before
then it is new to you:

http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

   Here's a problem that *sounded* impossible...  I almost regret
   posting the story to a wide audience, because it makes a great tale
   over drinks at a conference. :-) The story is slightly altered in
   order to protect the guilty, elide over irrelevant and boring
   details, and generally make the whole thing more entertaining.

   I was working in a job running the campus email system some years
   ago when I got a call from the chairman of the statistics
   department.

   "We're having a problem sending email out of the department."

   "What's the problem?" I asked.

   "We can't send mail more than 500 miles," the chairman explained.

   ...

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#4379

This is excellent, and it's new to me, so thanks for it.  I love the idea of
 an obscure 'drop_mail_over_kilometer' setting for sendmail.  Never hurts to
 check - there could've been one!

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