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I've seen some bizarre stuff.

This one goes really far back to the dial up days before companies started dropping T1's.

Our Japanese office was the absolute worst at communicating. Seemed like sometimes it took days for them to reply to things.

Our CEO used to get really hot under the collar when he'd send something to the President of our APAC office and not hear back till the next day.

He'd call to chew the guy out only to hear the excuse that he had replied right away even though his email was no where to be found.

I'm sitting in the VP of IT's office one day when the CEO calls and proceeds to give him a particularly unpleasant reaming when it dawned on me.

CEO hangs up and I look at VP and asked, how does the mail server deal with mail from the future?

He looked at me like I was nuts then went "ohhhh"

Hint, it was holding inbound mail till the emails "future" timestamp matched the local time on the receiving end.
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