[SunRescue] RE: Bill's Big-Honkin bandwidth!

[Kevin Loch]

You must reverse engineer flying saucers.

KL

Ken Hansen wrote:
> 
> I have to grab web sites via email at work, no "real" network access. Yuck!
> 
> I forget the name of the service I use, but the main stumbling point is that
> pages come back as *pure* text, I'd like to get *html* mail to look nice
> inside of Outlook - anyone know of such a facility?
> 
> Ken
> (Trust me, aside from the above limitation, it is a *very* cool place to
> work... ;^)
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <dave at cca.org>
> To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 5:43 PM
> Subject: RE: [SunRescue] RE: Bill's Big-Honkin bandwidth!
> 
> > shatle at vue.com writes:
> >
> > >Why does this sound familiar.  .  . Oh yeah - UUCP networks! <grin> In an
> > >earlier life (and I'm only 37) I could write up the Systems, Devices and
> > >Dialers files from memory for both SCO and AT&T SVR4. The company used to
> > >use UUCP to move data between our central office and 70 remote retail
> > >locations. When we put in our frame relay, everyone realized how much
> > >infrastructure (scripts, file handling, cron jobs, etc) was in place
> around
> > >UUCP- so to get over the hump, we enabled UUCP over the Ethernet/frame
> > >instead of dial.
> >
> > I was browsing the web via uucp for a while.
> >
> > I found a site that would let you request URLs by email. I modified
> > lynx to emit requests in that format. Sick, hunh?
> >
> > -- david fischer -- dave at cca.org -- www.cca.org -- Cthulhu told me to. --
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