Hi! mark,   
      
   On Wed, 21 Mar 12, you wrote to me:   
      
    PQ>> (BTW, the same goes for binkP.)   
      
    ml> and smtp, pop3 and numerous others... i used to regularly telnet to a   
    ml> smtpp server on the smtp port and manually enter the commands, type   
    ml> the message headers and message and send it... it was quite the   
    ml> experiance learning how things really work behind the scenes...   
      
   The very first ever time was when I playing with an email-tunnelling (I guess)   
   thing called 'Fidonet 2 Internet'.  (I used to feed Fidonet mail to one of my   
   point systems in Germany that way.)  I used to watch the server & client   
   dialogue during a session.  Most enlightening.   
      
    ml> here's another one for ya... if you have a POTS connection still, one   
    ml> can set up a tap off the serial for "snooping"... yes, you can read   
    ml> everything and se the binary of the files... it is all plain   
    ml> characters... nothing fancy... this works on the unencrypted network   
    ml> protocols, too ;)   
      
   I can't do POTS at the moment.  Here's a story for you, snooping to the   
   utmost...   
      
   Back around the middle-90s I was doing some part-time studies at a tech   
   college (studying programming theory & dabbling in Pascal & other languages).    
   The tutor was a HAM operator and brought some of his gear to class for a demo,   
   with his desktop gear (you know, the actual HAM gear & a PC) and a hand-held   
   unit.  As a text 'burst' came into his HAM unit, we could *hear* the   
   transmission on the hand-held and then see it on his desktop PC screen after   
   it was de-cacked.  =:)  I was impressed to say the least.   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
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