The case of the 500-mile email

Read the FAQ about the story. The following is the 500-mile email story in the form it originally appeared, in a post to sage-members on Sun, 24 Nov 2002.: From trey@sage.org Fri Nov 29 18:00:49 2002 Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 21:03:02 -0500 (EST) From: Trey Harris <trey@sage.org> To: sage-members@sage.org Subject: The case of the 500-mile email (was RE: [SAGE] Favorite impossible task?) Here's a problem that *sounded* impossible... I almost regret posting the story to a wide audience, because it makes a great tale over drinks at a conference. :-) The story is slightly altered in order to protect the guilty, elide over irrelevant and boring details, and generally make the whole thing more entertaining. I was working in a job running the campus email system some years ago when I got a call from the chairman of the statistics department. "We're having a problem sending email ...

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