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Date:      Sun, 23 Aug 1998 18:54:24 +0100
From:      Andrew Boothman <andrew@boothman.easynet.co.uk>
To:        conrads@neosoft.com
Cc:        "G.R. Gaudreau" <grgaud@sprint.ca>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Ports (was: FreeBSD main platform & Linux)
Message-ID:  <35E05750.9829F875@boothman.easynet.co.uk>
References:  <XFMail.980822205651.conrads@neosoft.com>

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Conrad Sabatier wrote:
> 
> For some real fun, try telnetting to machines using some of these port numbers.
> For instance, you can telnet into a news server using "telnet host 119" and
> actually issue NNTP protocol commands and see what the server does.  Port 25
> (and the proper remote host) will get you access to a system's mail server.
> 
> Toys for geeks, you know.  :-)

But something that can actually be quite useful. I sometimes used to
read my home e-mail from school by telnet-ing into my ISPs mail server.

I wrote a web page on this :-
http://www.boothman.easynet.co.uk/andrew/info/telmail.html

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