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Software infrastructure

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Hughes)
Fri Jun 4 14:06:39 1993

Date: Fri, 4 Jun 93 10:46:33 -0700
From: Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Johan Helsingius's message of Fri, 04 Jun 93 19:43:03 +0300 <9306041924.aa27246@penet.penet.FI>

>On your host (typically an UNIX box) you configure
>sendmail/smail/binmail/whatever to forward your mail over uucp to your
>home machine. 

This is a huge hurdle for people who don't own their own machines and
haven't convinced a sympathetic sysadmin to do the configuration.
A solution that works from a dialup login account can still be a batch
solution and should require no extra involvement from the sysadmins.

Eric

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