From: lmccarth@cs.umass.edu
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
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UTC Datetime: 1996-02-21 08:23:22 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 16:23:22 +0800
From: lmccarth@cs.umass.edu
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 16:23:22 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com (Cypherpunks Mailing List)
Subject: Re: Public Access Obsolete. Capitalism offers free email
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Duncan writes:
# two companies are preparing to offer free email to customers who agree
# to be barraged by ads. Juno and Freemark will soon offer free email to all
# (Americans).
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 :}
-Lewis "You're always disappointed, nothing seems to keep you high -- drive
your bargains, push your papers, win your medals, fuck your strangers;
don't it leave you on the empty side ?" (Joni Mitchell, 1972)
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