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From: gjm@packard.UUCP (Gary J. Murakami)
Newsgroups: net.rumor,net.news.adm
Subject: Re: reading other peoples' mail
Message-ID: <463@packard.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Apr-86 19:23:18 EST
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In article <692@hoptoad.uucp> gnu@hoptoad.UUCP writes:
>mistakes that give me information or market share...  (I can see the
>scramble as companies implement mail-checkers to look for info in their
>uucp traffic.  Maybe that's why AT&T is sponsoring ihnp4...)

I set up ihnp4 to support electronic mail for AT&T and friends since
there is a lot of communication between AT&T and other companies,
universities, consultants, suppliers, clients, and friends.  There is
also a significant amount of traffic that ihnp4 forwards which is
totally unrelated to AT&T.  However I consider this to be some of the
best PR that AT&T could ever support (I'm not sure how much longer it
will last).

Back on the subject: years ago before HDB UUCP, I used to try to read
the dead mail in the UUCP spool in often futile attempts to return the
failures to the sender with suggestions for retrying (silly me for
trying to be too nice).  Needless to say, that was a long time ago. 
Automated tools and finally HDB UUCP :-) took over this tedious task to
provide friendly and nice service to the general public.

He who looketh for the needle in the haystack will find the straw that
broke the camel's back.

-Gary