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 In article <857475094snz@f030.demon.co.uk>
  awood@f030.demon.co.uk (Andrew Wood) said:-

>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

Is there anything to watch out for with this. I've never got it to 
work.

telnet sdps.demon.co.uk 666
swampdog
ye_old_password

it pauses for a bit then then complains that USER or PASSWORD was 
invalid whilst scanning mailbox. What should I be entering, or is it 
just blocked while smtp is actually receiving?


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