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  • The case of the 500-mile email

    great story. explained simply (maybe I'm wrong) he thought he was crazy because they were complaining about being limited to sending e-mails only within 500 miles of them. he freaked out because it turned out to be true, but the internet doesn't work that way, so he looked into and... more

    Reviewed by View-TV Nov 25 2008, 04:11am ( 47 reviews ) • ibiblio.org

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  • Rated by Carl-001 on Jan 29 2009, 5:18pm

    gigglesnerk!

  • Rated by renes on Jan 24 2009, 4:22am

    The case of the 500-mile email.

  • Rated by tdkyo on Jan 23 2009, 6:19pm

    Not a bad story.

  • Reviewed by kindofabuzz on Jan 17 2009, 3:08pm

    god that was boring. i thought it would have a witty ending to it, but nope.

  • Reviewed by Wobbles on Dec 22 2008, 11:30am

    You'll laugh, you'll cry. Soon to be a hardback novel and a major motion picture staring Samuel L. Jackson as the burned out, hard nosed IT supervisor Trey Harris. He was a man riding the ragged edge. A man who'd seen too much and wouldn't be controlled any longer. A man who refused to let his email be stopped at a mere 500 miles.Sendmail 5 be damned!Shrug

  • Rated by View-TV on Nov 25 2008, 4:11am

    great story. explained simply (maybe I'm wrong) he thought he was crazy because they were complaining about being limited to sending e-mails only within 500 miles of them. he freaked out because it turned out to be true, but the internet doesn't work that way, so he looked into and couldn't understand why sending mail to anywhere beyond 500 miles wouldn't arrive. He then solved it and realized that there was a problem with the mail settings and that anytime a mail took more then a few seconds to find the recieving mail server, it would abort. The time it took to find any of the mail servers that were 500 or more miles away, meant that it would go over time and be aborted. So that was the problem - it wasn't the geographic problem, but a problem with timeouts. That's my simple explanation of it.

  • Rated by tisi on Oct 02 2008, 7:38pm

    Level 4 engineer, indeed. I couldn't believe the facts as I was reading through, but there's a rational explanation. Holy cow.

  • Reviewed by flatterkatz on Sep 29 2008, 3:42am

    phoenix: what the hell did you expect in "cyberculture"? beer comparisons?