Comment on GNU Terry PratchettparentComments−Tomte11yI don't see any real connection. The HTTP header doesn't make the requested web page be sent over and over.A better way would have been to establish a series of SMTP servers ("towers") that forward the mail in a circle endlessly.Let people subscribe to that kind of mailing list, getting one mail per day. And let the SMTP chain exist as long as there is one subscriber left.−cben11yI'm considering a cookie instead of an X- header, to at least mimic the "U = turn it around" aspect by the browser sending it back next time...
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I don't see any real connection. The HTTP header doesn't make the requested web page be sent over and over.
A better way would have been to establish a series of SMTP servers ("towers") that forward the mail in a circle endlessly.
Let people subscribe to that kind of mailing list, getting one mail per day. And let the SMTP chain exist as long as there is one subscriber left.
I'm considering a cookie instead of an X- header, to at least mimic the "U = turn it around" aspect by the browser sending it back next time...