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- From: elitman@wam.umd.edu (Eric A. Litman)
- Subject: Re: Terminal question
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 07:36:16 GMT
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- Lusty Wench (lusty@lusty.tamu.edu) writes:
-
- : I'd say there's a good reason *not* to go spreading around this type of
- : information, since I can't think of a legitimate reason for wanting to
- : do it.
-
- Very sound reasoning indeed. A corollary would be to deny access to computing
- resources to all non-expert users altogether, thereby negating any need
- for instruction. Were he alive today, George Bush would be proud.
-
- While this was not really the place for this question (comp.mail.misc is more
- appropriate), the easiest solution would be to use a widely available utility
- such as the program 'fastmail' distributed with the latest elm release. More
- complicated examples include telnetting to the SMTP port of the desired host,
- running /usr/lib/sendmail -f as root (which would be complicated for the
- original poster), or using perl and chat2.pl to create a bloated, feature-laden
- hack. I myself have such a beast, appropriately dubbed 'amail', which I may be
- coaxed into sharing.
-
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