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Re: If this gets out ..

#545
From: Andrew Wood
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 00:00
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In article <19970303212318254542@pwomar.demon.co.uk>
           Paul@pwomar.demon.co.uk "Paul Womar" writes:

> All@Sea <All@Sea> wrote:
> 
> > Paul@pwomar.demon.co.uk  previously gibbered to All  ... 
> > 
> > Hmm, I tried Telnet the other night for the first time and could I get it to
> > work?? Could I heck!! 
> > 
> > That was Demon's long finger@post effort I was trying to get ... 
> 
> It sounds like you aren't doing anything right :) Finger is Finger,
> Telnet is Telnet, Finger != Telnet :)  To do the post thing you need to
> type:
> finger allatsea@post

Misunderstandings....

finger node@post.demon.co.uk

   gives you a short list of how many mesages are on each punt

ec ac
tel sdps.demon.co.uk 666
(then enter node and password)

   gives you the long list with senders' names, subjects and lengths

Regards,
Andrew

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Date: 1997/03/04
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