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Re: Q: Commercial usage of Internet with mail-daemons

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From: Bob Snyder
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:46
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>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Kohn <kohn@cs.swarthmore.edu> writes:

Daniel> 	I have been using Usenet and the Internet for about
Daniel> three years now, and have recently come up with an idea for a
Daniel> commercial service to be available to Internet users.  In
Daniel> general terms, it would be a mail-daemon that would provide a
Daniel> service to users who would include their MasterCard or Visa
Daniel> number in the e-mail letter.  I have several questions about

This is a joke, right?  Visa and Mastercard numbers in email?  I like my
credit rating too much to send it though this easily interceptable medium.

Many sites use store and forward mail.  UUCP does this.  Sendmail does it
(although it usually forwards quite quickly).  Do you trust every machine
that your mail passes through to resist the temptation of looking?  Or people
using Ethernet snoopers to listen in on traffic as it goes by....

Sendmail bounce messages generally send a copy of the message to Postmaster.
If you mistype, do you want your credit card number to be in his/her hands?

Bob
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