Philip S Tellis wrote:

> Man, you waited like six hours.  Sometimes email gets stuck in routers
> longer than that.  There was no need to reply on the same day that the
> article came in the newspaper because there is no hope of it being printed
> before Monday anyway.  You could have waited till Saturday evening.

AFAIK, mail cannot get stuck in routers because both both sending and
receiving mail servers need to agree on whether they had a successful
transaction.

Mail can get stuck in relay mail servers though when the next one in the
chain is unavailable for whatever reason.

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