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	Deficiency, Explanation?
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On Mon, 4 Oct 2010, John Snow wrote:
> They know via the phone.  These impatient people call to see if the
> recipient has read the mail that they just sent. They expect the mail to
> arrive as soon as it's sent.

So they touch their email client, and at once it shows the message.

Email is not instantaneous.  As more policy is imposed, it will become
even less so; including such things as email delivery being withheld
pending review by compliance.

Not even BlackBerry is instantaneous any more.

Live with it.

-- Mark --

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