ANON: Re: how does it work

[Perry E. Metzger]

Phil Karn says:
> You don't use the system telnet, you write your own socket application.
> No UNIX systems I know log at this level, but it is certainly possible.
> Or someone could record packets off the local Ethernet. There's not much
> you can do about this.
> 
> You could hack up a copy of sendmail, but SMTP is so trivial that you
> could do it yourself, especially since the functionality you need
> is so limited.

Indeed, writing an SMTP agent in Perl is quite trivial -- I've done
it.

Perry