> Never assume with the US Postal System. This may be less a Slackware thing
> and more a postal system thing. It's been increasingly odd as of late. For
> example, my mother lives 300 miles south directly on a major interstate,
> yet her mail to me first gets sent west on a tiny state highway, then
> postmarked (on a different day than she sent it too, which is causing a
> lot of anger from the rebate front since the post office silently stopped
> postmarking on the day someone dropped stuff in the mail for certain
> towns), then sent southeast to LA, then sent north to me... on the SAME
> interstate. The mail makes a totally unnecessary couple hundred miles side
> trip for some strange reason, and this has only started up recently. It
> used to just go straight up the interstate.

Well I got this chap sitting just next to my cubicle and my mail to him
travels all the way around the world and back, just see:
root# traceroute gmail.google.com
traceroute to gmail.google.akadns.net (64.233.171.105), 30 hops max, 38 byte
packets
1 217.16.64.137 (217.16.64.137) 1.010 ms 0.553 ms 0.396 ms
2 217.16.65.129 (217.16.65.129) 0.878 ms 0.834 ms 0.873 ms
3 217.16.66.50 (217.16.66.50) 1.548 ms 1.426 ms 1.517 ms
4 195.26.158.233 (195.26.158.233) 3.538 ms 3.779 ms 3.351 ms
5 195.26.150.68 (195.26.150.68) 1.898 ms 2.876 ms 1.866 ms
6 212.200.23.173 (212.200.23.173) 22.818 ms 15.152 ms 15.459 ms
7 212.200.19.93 (212.200.19.93) 24.841 ms 17.135 ms 24.230 ms
8 t2a5-p10-0.de-fra.eu.bt.net (166.49.148.137) 57.126 ms 35.632 ms
34.934 ms
9 ixp1-ge1-1.de-fra.eu.bt.net (166.49.163.198) 35.533 ms 33.102 ms
48.459 ms
10 de-cix.net.google.com (80.81.192.108) 50.395 ms 47.127 ms 41.226 ms
11 216.239.46.49 (216.239.46.49) 60.374 ms 38.693 ms 46.428 ms
12 216.239.46.16 (216.239.46.16) 144.137 ms 134.294 ms 138.286 ms
13 216.239.48.193 (216.239.48.193) 133.188 ms 141.073 ms 135.557 ms
14 216.239.46.33 (216.239.46.33) 143.774 ms 131.615 ms 130.967 ms
15 216.239.46.53 (216.239.46.53) 147.692 ms 151.095 ms 147.499 ms
16 216.239.46.44 (216.239.46.44) 143.028 ms 141.219 ms 142.459 ms
17 216.239.46.146 (216.239.46.146) 145.857 ms 146.486 ms 146.676 ms
18 216.239.46.78 (216.239.46.78) 149.501 ms 64.233.175.166


Oooo, you were speaking about sans-e-mail

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damjan