If you want to have such a thing to call "your account" you're welcome to plunk down some $$$, buy a machine, get yerself a network link, and remail to your heart's content. If I were another CS student at UB, I would be bummed if the scarce (by your account, and by most others at universities) cycles I needed to get my homework done were being given away to folks all over the world via a remailer.

Hmmm.. Unless you guys in the states get third level education for free you've *already* plunked down some $$$ as course fees. I would assume that a portion of the fees for an IT related course would be applied to purchase/upkeep of the relevant kit. IMHO the attitude of educational establishments which can border on the paranoid whenever they come across usage of "their" systems which isn't typical is very similar to the classic model of the commercial DP gruppenfuhrer... Both can be regarded as empire-builders.. Stephen