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Bill Bradford geeks at sunhelp.org
Fri Aug 3 14:49:35 CDT 2001


On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 03:40:15PM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
> Don't you people know the proper way to send and read email?  telnet
> baby.  Telnet mail 25 for send and telnet mail 119 for recieve.

You read mail via NNTP?

bash-2.03$ grep 119 /etc/services
nntp            119/tcp         usenet          # Network News Transfer

You *are* a sicko.

(I'm guessing you meant 110, POP3)

Why not just "more /var/spool/mail/jboyd" ?

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX



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