Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!pilchuck!nwnexus!jazzie!sds From: sds@jazzie.wa.com (Sean Shapira) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: mail servers Message-ID: <1990Aug28.081616.2146@jazzie.wa.com> Date: 28 Aug 90 08:16:16 GMT References: <1990Aug17.021921.1863@chinet.chi.il.us> <1594@i2ack.sublink.org> Organization: Jazzie Systems, Seattle, Washington, USA Lines: 13 bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes: >If a site is not so connected, then they can pay for the transient >connectivity when they need it. [He then describes the Ohio State and UUNET dialup access facilities.] Sites can arrange such connectivity, but users don't always have such freedom. I wonder to what extent the popularity of mail servers is attributable to users accessing them without intercession by, or the knowledge of, site administrators. -- Sean Shapira "If there were no winters to guard against, then the sds@jazzie.wa.com grasshoppper would not get his come-uppance, nor the (206) 322-4742 ant his shabby victory." --Bernard Suits