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Ask HN: MIT Story, Email Only Goes 600 Miles or Less?
Does anyone have a link to this old HN/blog story, where the author was MIT email support and their professors'/clients found only email recipients within 600 miles could receive their emails. Turned out the emails were limited by some bounce-back timer, I don't recall the specifics, but that window times the speed of light = 600 miles.
I'd love to share the link today so I don't sound crazy for mentioning a crazy tech bug involving the speed of light to a colleague.
- mtmail 5y agohttps://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
- slater 5y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23775404 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23775404 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9338708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9338708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16384158 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16384158 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12778904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12778904 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16785189 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16785189 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12997568 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12997568
- fhefofsogdf 5y agohttps://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html