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When I read things about latency I always somehow get reminded of the story of the 500 mile e-mail: http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html http://www.ib
by kokey 12y ago
When I read things about latency I always somehow get reminded of the story of the 500 mile e-mail: http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
- hmsimha 12y agoI liked this story, but there were a few things I didn't quite understand. How did they manage to get latency to roughly the speed of light? And furthermore, wouldn't emails be routed through a series of intermediary SMTP servers, likely closer than 500 miles in distance anyway?
- sampo 12y agoI remember seeing (a long time ago) a further comment where he confesses that he didn't remember the the details any more when he wrote the story, so he just inserted some numbers.