Re:We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002)
by akeruu on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @08:58PM
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Yes, this story gets posted a lot, and many of us might know it, but at the same time, I like to think about the ones that didn't. They will learn something new today. XKCD said it better than I could: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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Re:We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002)
by dredmorbius on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @10:21PM
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Genuine perennial favs are worth repeating every so often --- a year or two's interval seems reasonable, and is vouched by HN.
A marker of aging for me was seeing, a decade or two after I'd first read them in the local paper as a callow youth, repeats of previous features, by topic if not the actual text. Eventually the thought occurred to me that perhaps the versions I'd remembered were themselves not original.
People tell, and repeat, and embellish, stories. Sometimes because the young'uns and whippersnappers and new arrivals haven't heard them yet. Sometimes because they're just damned good stories and we enjoy the retelling.
Re:We can't send email more than 500 miles (2002)
by divbzero on Thursday July 09, 2020 @02:55AM
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Yes, I’ll continue upvoting this classic when it pops up in the years ahead.