prodev opened this issue on Jul 08, 2007 · 411 posts
vince3 posted Thu, 19 July 2007 at 2:04 PM
not exactly off topic-
but i was sitting thinking here today at how amazing it is that I in London, can write something here, click "post reply" and it appear on these boards within a second, and if someone else is in this thread at the same time say from Aussie (other side of world from me), can reply, and i can see there reply in seconds, i can actually have a conversation with someone the other side of the world, and the only delay in the conversation is the amount of time it takes to type the reply.
i had heard that when America and England were connected via the internet that a boat leaves one for the other, and has a dirty great big amount of cable on board that it just drops out the back as it goes along, probally took weeks to get here or there (whichever way it went) but when it did arrive it would of only taken a second to relay the message over the newly laid net connection that it had arrived and all is well, that's quicker than the harbour master could of said "no you can't dock here landlubber!! now b***er off back to sea with you!!"
anyhoo with all that being said it would be equally amazing to think that a "good" e-mail harvester would take more than a couple of minutes to harvest newly opened accounts with Rendo'..............see it linked in eventually.