From: hughes@ah.com (Eric Hughes)
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 94 17:05:18 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Running regularly
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>If it turns out that it was just the process that was automatically killed
>on a time interval, then you could easily write a script that would spawn a
>new process and then kill the parent.

To continue the explanation, no single process would ever execute for
a long time, since it would, phoenix-like, periodically die and be
reborn.

A clever mail filter hack could also check to see if it was still
alive (say, with a socket) and then start it running again if it had
stopped.

Eric