Needed my password reset on a website, called support and they said they sent a link and it can take an hour to arrive in my inbox. Isn’t that like a billion years in computer time? Why does it take so long?
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Email systems are set up in queues, sort of like server traffic lights. Because so many requests are coming in all the time, especially with bigger services, they batch the requests and they run in order received mostly
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