1996-02-21 - Re: Public Access Obsolete. Capitalism offers free email

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From: Mike Fletcher <fletch@ain.bls.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
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Message ID: <9602211527.AA29311@outland>
Reply To: <199602210325.WAA12218@thor.cs.umass.edu>
UTC Datetime: 1996-02-21 16:58:30 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 00:58:30 +0800

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From: Mike Fletcher <fletch@ain.bls.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 00:58:30 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Subject: Re: Public Access Obsolete. Capitalism offers free email
In-Reply-To: <199602210325.WAA12218@thor.cs.umass.edu>
Message-ID: <9602211527.AA29311@outland>
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> Nobody writes:
> > It might be a cheap safe way to set up a remailer too...
> 
> I'd be (very pleasantly) surprised if they will let you run code on the free
> email account. After all, if you could, you could install a filter like 
> procmail and automatically trash most of the junk mail :}

	Who says the code has to run on their machine.  Just forward
all incoming mail off to another box, and send all the outgoing mail out
from the free account.  Depending of course on whether it's some sort
of shell account or if you POP/SMTP to their box.

	Just an idea.

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