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by rascul 266 days ago
What's the "like it's 1984" part?
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What's the "like it's 1984" part?

Maybe there's a sleep() command in there so that it takes six days to send an e-mail from upstate New York to Sweden?

Because I can tell you that's how long it took in 1984.

I was hoping he’d set up Citadel! Email system and an 80s bbs platform in one. citadel.org