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- From: trsnyder@mcs.drexel.edu (Bob Snyder)
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- Subject: Re: Q: Commercial usage of Internet with mail-daemons
- Message-ID: <TRSNYDER.93Jan28104602@vf0031.mcs.drexel.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 15:46:02 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: kohn@cs.swarthmore.edu's message of 27 Jan 93 16:56:44 GMT
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- >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Kohn <kohn@cs.swarthmore.edu> writes:
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- Daniel> I have been using Usenet and the Internet for about
- Daniel> three years now, and have recently come up with an idea for a
- Daniel> commercial service to be available to Internet users. In
- Daniel> general terms, it would be a mail-daemon that would provide a
- Daniel> service to users who would include their MasterCard or Visa
- Daniel> number in the e-mail letter. I have several questions about
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- This is a joke, right? Visa and Mastercard numbers in email? I like my
- credit rating too much to send it though this easily interceptable medium.
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- Many sites use store and forward mail. UUCP does this. Sendmail does it
- (although it usually forwards quite quickly). Do you trust every machine
- that your mail passes through to resist the temptation of looking? Or people
- using Ethernet snoopers to listen in on traffic as it goes by....
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- Sendmail bounce messages generally send a copy of the message to Postmaster.
- If you mistype, do you want your credit card number to be in his/her hands?
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- Bob
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