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[joshua d boyd]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 02:49:35PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 03:40:15PM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
> > Don't you people know the proper way to send and read email?  telnet
> > baby.  Telnet mail 25 for send and telnet mail 119 for recieve.
> 
> You read mail via NNTP?
> 
> bash-2.03$ grep 119 /etc/services
> nntp            119/tcp         usenet          # Network News Transfer
> 
> You *are* a sicko.
> 
> (I'm guessing you meant 110, POP3)

Yeah, I hit send sooner than I meant to.
 
> Why not just "more /var/spool/mail/jboyd" ?

Hmm.  File not found.  Maybe you meant /var/mail/jdboyd, or perhaps this
IPC/SS5 is just wierdly setup.  

Anyway, more assumes that you have shell access.  And in my case I
do.  However my dad doesn't have to verizon.net, so he would have to
telnet port 110.
 
-- 
Joshua D. Boyd