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Re: mail servers

#1643
From: Sean Shapira
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 1990 08:16
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bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
>If a site is not so connected, then they can pay for the transient
>connectivity when they need it.  
[He then describes the Ohio State and UUNET dialup access facilities.]

Sites can arrange such connectivity, but users don't always have such 
freedom.  I wonder to what extent the popularity of mail servers is
attributable to users accessing them without intercession by, or the 
knowledge of, site administrators.
-- 
Sean Shapira 		"If there were no winters to guard against, then the 
sds@jazzie.wa.com	grasshoppper would not get his come-uppance, nor the
(206) 322-4742		ant his shabby victory."	--Bernard Suits
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Message-ID: <1990Aug28.081616.2146@jazzie.wa.com>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!pilchuck!nwnexus!jazzie!sds
References: <1990Aug17.021921.1863@chinet.chi.il.us> <1594@i2ack.sublink.org> <BOB.90Aug22102618@volitans.MorningStar.Com>

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From: sds@jazzie.wa.com (Sean Shapira)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: mail servers
Message-ID: <1990Aug28.081616.2146@jazzie.wa.com>
Date: 28 Aug 90 08:16:16 GMT
References: <1990Aug17.021921.1863@chinet.chi.il.us> <1594@i2ack.sublink.org> <BOB.90Aug22102618@volitans.MorningStar.Com>
Organization: Jazzie Systems, Seattle, Washington, USA
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