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From: Daniel O'Leary <Daniel_O'Leary@
To: Rick Palmer
Subject: Re: Mail spam problem
Date:Sat, January 23, 1999 05:34 AM


Hey, not ALL "unix guys" hate TF. Hint *I* had a uix box at home for about a month before I both the first mac AND I wrote a BBS for it. What am I running now????
Infact I'm cultivating small following from that very crowd. I believe one or more have them have asked RT about a unix port, too but he's not been interested in doing one.


On 01/22/1999 5:51 AM, Rick Palmer wrote:

>>We had exactly the same problem. Our network guru decided the answer >to
>the 'why' was that it doesn't work. Thus our solution was to split >the
>mail server from TF server and place it behind a unix firewall....
>
>That's bull. It works just fine. I've found that UNIX guys hate TF
>cause it ain't UNIX. But UNIX could use a few improvements too.
>Security being chief among them. I been battling hackers on our UNIX
>boxes for some weeks now....it on going...soon as you plug one hole they
>find another. The best they been able to do to our Mac servers is get
>them to restart. With PowerKey they are tough.
>
>rick
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