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- From: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
- Subject: Re: interNet via modem
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.034803.15192@acme.gen.nz>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 03:48:03 GMT
- Organization: ACME BBS - Public Access Usenet, Palmerston North, New Zealand
- References: <BzMstv.30w@comp.vuw.ac.nz> <15814357@zl2tnm.gen.nz>
- Reply-To: kilroy@acme.gen.nz (earthbound misfit, I)
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- don@zl2tnm.gen.nz (Don Stokes) writes:
-
- > [...dialup IP...]
- >
- > Other gotchas include the issue of what to do with mail -- the nature of
- > SMTP is that it expects that a host is going to be there all the time, and
- > if it isn't, it'll come back Real Soon Now. That assumption is going to
- > be false with a dialup SLIP or PPP connection, so alternative arrangements
- > need to be made. Those arrangements are probably going to cost money.
-
- You could use POP, which appears to be receiving enthusiastic support (if
- the whizzy client I'm using on a PC at work is an indication). The problem
- it does cause of course is that your server then has to provide spool space
- for my mail until I bother to call and grab it.
-
- - k
- --
- Craig Harding kilroy@acme.gen.nz ACME BBS +64 6 3551342
- "Jub'er lbh pnyyvat n obmb?"
-