Another Thing #Programmers Believe About Email... [*]

Email is instantaneous, or close enough. Verification links and codes sent via #email with 5-minute timeouts are perfectly fine, because no one's email is ever behind a higher-latency link than that, or has email that traverses multiple #hops, or that email #servers are ever #overloaded or #down for #maintenance.

[*] Or possibly Thing Product Managers Believe About Email

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