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by js2 3069 days ago
Obligatory link to "The case of the 500-mile email":

https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
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dfee 3069 days ago
My favorite part: “I diffed it against the sendmail.cf in my home directory. It hadn't been altered--it was a sendmail.cf I had written. And I was fairly certain I hadn't enabled the "FAIL_MAIL_OVER_500_MILES" option.”
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cesis 3069 days ago
3ms "connect timeout" would be round-trip, right? So are the calculations at the end of the article incorrect?
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