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by mbrutsch 4375 days ago
The VA's internal system also had "email" like this (before email was widely used), where we could unsend messages.

Fun fact: The VA's system was called Decentralized Hospital Computer Program (DHCP). When that acronym was overloaded by Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, they changed it - to VistA. Either they had really bad luck picking names, or were very prescient.