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From: glenn@gla-aux.uucp (Glenn Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp,news.admin
Subject: Re: BITFTP grief!
Message-ID: <0E010021.ggqpeg@gla-aux.uucp>
Date: 25 May 91 02:39:58 GMT
Reply-To: glenn%gla-aux.uucp@skinner.cs.uoregon.edu
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In article <1991May19.214916.27412@chinet.chi.il.us>, randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes:
> In article <1991May19.133104.11572@balkan.TNT.COM> wgb@balkan.TNT.COM (William G. Bunton) writes:
> >And some of us, due to children or other excuses, have to have 900
> >blocking in place.
> 
> 	On your uucp line?  Common, be real.

Yes.  On our uucp line.  Some of us live in locations where multiple phone
lines can be prohibitively expensive (a friend would have had to pay $400
for installation PLUS $125 PER MONTH PLUS any long distance charges), or
there are simply not enough lines available in the neighborhood (because
everybody else has multiple lines).  I'm lucky now, I have a second line,
but I STILL don't permit dialup access -- my mail & news server also acts
as a development machine, and I have too much time and money invested in
it to have every cracker in a 50 mile radius attempting to break into my
machine.

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