[Stuart]

How NTL email really works.

1. You type the mail and click send.
2. Your mail client sends the mail to NTL
3. At NTL, the mail is printed. An operator picks up the printout, hands it to another operator, who hands it to another operator, and so on.
4. Eventually it gets to the an operator who posts it via the Royal Mail.

The same thing happens in reverse for recieving mail...

BTW, I am joking..