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Can an email go 500 miles in 2025?

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303 points zdw | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 16:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.558s | source
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robin_reala ◴[08 Jul 25 14:02 UTC] No.44500076[source]▶
If you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000 and haven’t heard the original 500-mile email story, you can read it at https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles.

(discussed previously on HN 5 years ago – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23775404 – and 10 years ago – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9338708)

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dgritsko ◴[08 Jul 25 14:36 UTC] No.44500395[source]▶
And if you're one of today's lucky 10,000 and haven't heard of the concept of "lucky 10,000", you can read the relevant XKCD here: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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1. SoftTalker ◴[08 Jul 25 14:57 UTC] No.44500605[source]▶
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