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- From: bpn@po.CWRU.Edu (Brian Nelson)
- Newsgroups: alt.internet.services
- Subject: Re: freenet
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 02:52:31 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University
- Lines: 29
- Message-ID: <bpn.95.722400751@po.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <1em1buINNbp9@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- In article <1em1buINNbp9@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> bp979@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark D. Rabinowitz) writes:
- >From: bp979@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mark D. Rabinowitz)
- >Subject: Re: freenet
- >Date: 21 Nov 1992 19:06:38 GMT
- >
- > I have been able to get on the Cleveland Freenet from a gopher
- >server without being asked for my University of Michigan account.
- >It involved going through a series of menus to get from the U-M
- >gopher ("um-gopherblue"--I forgot the telnet number) to the
- >Michigan State University gopher. The MSU gopher allowed me to
- >telnet to the Cleveland Freenet. (I'll get the telnet number and
- >the menus I went through in a message to be posted November 22
- >or 23.) So getting on a freenet without being asked for some
- >university or company account depends on what access you have to
- >a "gopher server"--all the gophers are pretty much interconnec-
- >ted, so anyone can get to the MSU or U-M gopher with the right
- >sequence of menus. -Mark Rabinowitz
- > bp979@cleveland.freenet.edu
- Nope. if you want access to Cleveland FreeNet, just telnet to freenet-in-a.
- cwru.edu and apply for an account.
-
- "So when I die, the first thing I will see in heaven is a score list?"
- 1st Law of Hacking: leaving is much more difficult than entering.
- 2nd Law of Hacking: first in, first out.
- 3rd Law of Hacking: the last blow counts most.
- 4th Law of Hacking: you will find the exit at the entrance.
-
- Brian Nelson
- bpn@po.cwru.edu
-