His defense on the handshake is to acknowledge that he lied about the 3 millisecond timeout but the story is still true anyway. This is the opposite of convincing! What do you expect a liar to say, “Dang, you got me”? Elsewhere, to fix another plot hole he needs to hypothesize that Sun was shipping a version of Sendmail V5 which had been modified for backwards compatibility with V8 config files.
There is some number of suspicious details at which it becomes appropriate to assume the story is made up, and if you don’t think this story meets that bar then I have a bridge to sell you.
For what it’s worth, I sent this story to a friend the other day, who’s probably ~50 now and was very active on the Internet in the 90s—thinking he’d find it amusing if he hadn’t come across it before
Not only did he remember this story contemporaneously, but he said he was the recipient of the test-email for a particular city mentioned in the article!
This is someone of high-integrity whom I trust, and makes me more confident this happened, even if some details are smoothed over as described
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His defense on the handshake is to acknowledge that he lied about the 3 millisecond timeout but the story is still true anyway. This is the opposite of convincing! What do you expect a liar to say, “Dang, you got me”? Elsewhere, to fix another plot hole he needs to hypothesize that Sun was shipping a version of Sendmail V5 which had been modified for backwards compatibility with V8 config files.
There is some number of suspicious details at which it becomes appropriate to assume the story is made up, and if you don’t think this story meets that bar then I have a bridge to sell you.
For what it’s worth, I sent this story to a friend the other day, who’s probably ~50 now and was very active on the Internet in the 90s—thinking he’d find it amusing if he hadn’t come across it before
Not only did he remember this story contemporaneously, but he said he was the recipient of the test-email for a particular city mentioned in the article!
This is someone of high-integrity whom I trust, and makes me more confident this happened, even if some details are smoothed over as described