graywolf wrote: > Internet paths are a drunkard's walk. One email may go directly from a > to b, another may go from a to z to h to g to y to k to e to r to b. > Obviously the first message would arrive sooner than the second. It > works amazingly well unless some server along the way accepts the > message and then crashes before sending it on. To prevent that from > causing a problem mail-servers send it out along several paths, and > after it arrives the final mail-server says I already have that message, > That is absolutely NOT how email delivery works.
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