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Yeah it's old but I never did figure out how his geostatisticians knew how to see if the email went further than 500 miles...I mean, that'd mean they know to me
by kajecounterhack 18y ago
Yeah it's old but I never did figure out how his geostatisticians knew how to see if the email went further than 500 miles...I mean, that'd mean they know to measure where the mail servers are rather than the actual user, right? oh well.
- IsaacSchlueter 18y agoBack then, most of the users were probably within a local telephone call of their mail server.
- diN0bot 18y agoback then in the good old days of 2002... (not sure if i'm joking or serious. depends on one's perception of chance)
- eb 18y agoRead the first line of his description again: "The following is the 500-mile email story in the form it originally appeared, in a post to sage-members on Sun, 24 Nov 2002." The story appeared on the SAGE mailing list in 2002. It actually takes place between 1994 to 1997. http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail-faq.html http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail-faq.html
- IsaacSchlueter 18y agoExactly. In 1994, I was in the same town as my mail server. Since these were emails from professors, probably to other academic types, many of them probably used their school's servers, which would have been local.
- jcl 18y agoAlso, most of the people they were trying to write to were probably at academic institutions, which function as their own ISP.