No, you've got that just backwards. All email is being delivered to a server located in your local post office, where it is printed. This printed copy is then delivered to the recipients local post office by 25 year old mule-back, tramp steamer, etc. Upon being delivered, it is then scanned and, finally, emailed to it's ultimate destination. The USPS has to justify all that fancy sorting & delivery equipment. Not to mention all those high priced managers. ;-)
cmr On Thursday 11 September 2003 03:55 pm, you wrote: > On Thursday 11 September 2003 01:30 pm, dep wrote: > > quoth Tony Alfrey: > > | > Well if you consider getting a message on Thursday afternoon that > > | > was sent on Wednesday afternoon OK, then it's working OK here, > > | > too ;-) > > | > > | Oooh, jeeze, I guess I didn't check the dates <:o > > > > guess those rumors about the u.s. postal service taking over email > > have proved true . . . > > Yeah, what they do is open your mail, scan it, send it to an appropriate > local post office as an attachment, print it out, and then deliver it > in the usual way. -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 ---- "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -------- _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
