From: Mark Cornick <mark@evol.resnet.jmu.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 02:36:58 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Public Access Obsolete. Capitalism offers free email
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> > > 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.

Although I haven't looked into this at all, somehow I can see them
requiring some sort of proprietary mailreader that *won't* let you
delete the ads without reading them (and probably not standards-based
either, so you couldn't replace it with something that would let you
skip the ads.)

Foo. You get what you pay for.

- --mark

Mark S. Cornick                      mailto:mark@evol.resnet.jmu.edu
Harrisonburg, VA                   http://evol.resnet.jmu.edu/~mark/
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