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Can an email go 500 miles in 2025?

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304 points zdw | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 16:49 UTC | HN request time: 0.247s | source
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welder ◴[08 Jul 25 14:56 UTC] No.44500591[source]▶
I thought this was about consolidation of email providers so your email never leaves a single datacenter:

"10 years ago we couldn't send an email 500 miles, but these days we can't send it 500 miles because it just routes internally."

Too bad, I think that would have been more interesting to read.

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1. banannaise ◴[08 Jul 25 16:11 UTC] No.44501374[source]▶
This is the first roadblock the author runs into - lots of universities ping at <2ms, likely because everyone's on the same datacenter.