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Real Snail Mail

Posted by kdawson on from the slower-than-pigeons dept.

A few news outlets, mostly in the UK, have picked up the story of gastropod-enabled email delivery. The RealSnailMail project out of Bournemouth University uses snails with RFID tags to deliver email. The service will officially launch at SIGGRAPH on August 11, 2008. While it's still under development, the perpetrators write, "For testing purposes some messages may be forwarded sooner than expected. Sorry we can not guarantee unreliability of service at this time. We hope to have RealSnailMail working less predictably as soon as possible."

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  1. This needs an RFC by Cassini2 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I can see it coming already: TCP/IP over snails. A follow up to RFC-1149 A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers.

  2. Re:Soo.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    We need an RFC for snails.

    In Sweden they just made a new law giving their government the right to listen to almost all communication going in to and out of the country. But the law only gives FRA the right to listen to communications if wired or over radio.

    To get around the "pidgin hole", I have heard that the swedish defense forces are going to kill all birds crossing their border.

    To protect the pidgins and the environment (and secondary the right of private communications for the people in Sweden) we need a new RFC for slugs.

    We should create a new RFC for a new animal helping us to communicate or whatever is needed whenever the laws are making it impossible for us to communicate privately using other means.