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Re: question about email-only accounts- using Eudora

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From: Huw Davies
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 00:00
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Juan de Silva (jsilva@suburbia.net) wrote:
: I have been advised that it is not technically possible to allow way
: to Eudora while closing access to the Web and therefore there are not
: inexpensive options.  

This is not true, we have accounts on our pop server machine that can only
access pop and nothing else. Basically the accounts have a simple shell 
(/bin/true) which effectively log you out if you attempt to log in and the
only services we provide are pop.
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From: cchd@lucifer.its.latrobe.edu.au (Huw Davies)
Subject: Re: question about email-only accounts- using Eudora
Date: 1996/11/06
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