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Email delivery at snail's pace
Thursday 19th June 2008, by Daniel King
Broadband users searching for fast speeds and efficiency will probably not be looking to acquire the services of three snails employed to deliver emails.
The snails, Muriel, Austin and Cecil, have been fitted with technology which allows them to deliver emails - although the service could take months, reports the BBC.
It has been revealed that the Real Snail Mail is part of a slow art project at Bournemouth University and has been designed to encourage people to think about their work and the technology used.
Visual artist Paul Smith explained: "One thing technology promises us is speed, acceleration, more of everything in less time. Culturally, we seem obsessed with immediacy. Time is not to be taken but crammed to bursting point."
Anyone interested in using Real Snail Mail may be interested to know that the most efficient snail is Austin, who has undertaken ten messages at an average speed of 1.96 days.
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