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Can't Send Email over about 520 Miles...

RobertKaucher

The case of the 500-mile email

You may have seen that story before, but it's a good one. The geostatisticians were actually very correct as the sys admin's calculations did not take in account the resistance of copper.

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veritas_libertas

Oh that is way too funny... LOL!

Everyone

Nice.

This message was too short.

Heero

You can pick that story apart so hard. At best, it is a dramatic interpretation of the real events. For example, if it took 3ms to timeout, and 500 miles was 3ms, then it would have to be a 250 mile radius max because of the round trip time.

ChooseLife

Great story!

Heero wrote: »

You can pick that story apart so hard. At best, it is a dramatic interpretation of the real events. For example, if it took 3ms to timeout, and 500 miles was 3ms, then it would have to be a 250 mile radius max because of the round trip time.

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