17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
From: wcs@anchor.ho.att.com Tim writes:
One thing I should've noted is that a Linux-based cheap remailer is mostly useless without a "live connection" to the Net.
I disagree - live connections are great for fast-response systems, but we got along just fine in the uucp dialup world with occasional connections; And if get someone to do secondary MX for you that _is_ fulltime connected, then the only latency for mail is the poll time. If you're on an ISDN line, for example, you can get online and poll every five minutes for ten seconds at a time (ten seconds only when there's no mail), cutting down line charges for fulltime _idle_ connectivity by a factor of thirty. Not all that expensive at all, really. Eric