Re: Why don't ISPs offer shell anymore?

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From: Rick Ellis
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 00:00

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In article <32DC8627.7B8B@caprica.com>,
Kenneth Taira  <ktaira@caprica.com> wrote:

>2.  Headaches of people running lots of programs, using up cpu time. running bots
>    and multiple programs that continue running when the person has logged off (nohup),
>    leaving their pine or elm mail readers running...abusers run spam-bots, 
>    mailing lists and denial-of-service attacks.  And you have to watch how much
>    disk space people are using...

Programs running after the user has logged out isn't a problem.  They
get killed.

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From: ellis@ftel.net (Rick Ellis)
Subject: Re: Why don't ISPs offer shell anymore?
Date: 1997/01/17
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