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Re:Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002) by searealist on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @07:24PM (#37578457)
He made the story up. When confronted with the fact that units didn't convert some of the units from his story his response was essentially "Oh yeah, well of course I always supplemented my units definitions on all my machines with obscure units.".
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Re:Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002) by Cyphase on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @07:37PM (#37578567)
Do you have a source for that?

EDIT: #19 here https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail-faq.html

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Re:Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002) by searealist on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @07:38PM (#37578579)
Check his own FAQ.
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Re:Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002) by vore on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @10:27PM (#37579745)
I don't think that's enough evidence to claim he made the whole story up.
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Re:Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002) by chungy on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @07:57PM (#37578740)
These potential anachronisms are easy to insert when retelling a story. It doesn't really mean he "made it up", but reverse engineering how the diagnostic was determined might lead one to use tools/definitions that didn't exist at the time.

It's also entirely plausible that a local definitions file was used to provide the unit that didn't come in the default install. Hence the anachronism is merely "potential" instead of "definite"

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