An update on the SF airport kiosk email machines: Judging from the headers, there _is_ a Linux machine driving the laptops, and there's a Metricom ricochet modem providing the communications path - interesting alternative to wires, and I guess they don't mind having the extra radio waves in the airport. It does support anonymous email, in that you can type in any email address you want, and it doesn't seem to mind. In addition to limited web, telnet, and outgoing email, it lets you retrieve email with POP3. Doesn't seem to be a way to get it to run a program, though :-) --------------------------------- Return-Path: <johndoe@airport.sf.na> Received: from linux.quickaid.com (root@www.quickaid.com [204.188.26.11]) by ixmail4.ix.netcom.com (8.7.5/SMI-4.1/Netcom) id VAA18934; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:59:22 -0800 (PST) From: johndoe@airport.sf.na Received: from SFO-00-6.ricochet.net ([204.254.16.39]) by linux.quickaid.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA22004 for <stewarts@ix.netcom.com>; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 22:00:13 -0800 Message-Id: <199701230600.WAA22004@linux.quickaid.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:58:40 To: stewarts@ix.netcom.com Subject: testing email from airport kiosk X-Mailer: QuickAID Kiosk who am i # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp # (If this is a mailing list, please Cc: me on replies. Thanks.)