Tag: humor

500 miles email limit

I’ve read this story a while ago, but this is a beautiful piece of the system administration reality, so here it goes again.

“We’re having a problem sending email out of the department.”
“What’s the problem?” I asked.
“We can’t send mail more than 500 miles,” the chairman explained.
I choked on my latte. “Come again?”
“We can’t send mail farther than 500 miles from here,” he repeated. “A
little bit more, actually. Call it 520 miles. But no farther.”

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