From: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 13:53:19 +0800
To: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Subject: Re: alias servers  (al la alias.c2.org)
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From:	IN%"stewarts@ix.netcom.com"  "Bill Stewart"  7-MAY-1996 01:18:29.63

>The big negative about using them as alias servers is that you have
>to use _their_ software and dial up to them; you can't get your mail
>by POP (though you can argue that it's harder to trace that way),
>and you have to use their silly advertisement-displaying user interface
>(shades of Prodigy!).  I assume that behind their silly interface
>is a standard network protocol, which somebody can decipher and
>figure out how to use SLIP or PPP or X.3/X.28/X.29 or whatever instead.

	Quite. There was a proposal a bit ago for someone to figure out how
the user interface worked and to put together a batch-filing remailer to use
their system. I haven't heard anything further on this.
	-Allen