[wplug] telnet for email

[billings at negate.org]

On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 11:01, John Harrold wrote:
> Sometime in June Mike Griffin assaulted the keyboard and produced:
> 
> | Every computer that has tcp/ip installed has a telnet client. This 
> | doesn't hold true with secure shell clients.
> | If you're at a library, for instance, you can't dl something onto the 
> | computer but telnet is available for use.
> | 
> | Mike
> 
> well you can setup a webserver with ssl and get one of those java ssh
> clients to run in a browser... i did this a while back and it worked pretty
> well. really though, of the libraries i've been in, the computers were
> either locked down so tightly that access was forbidden to telnet or so
> poorly that i could download putty. 

So everyone else on the list can benefit:

http://www.appgate.com/mindterm/ -- Java SSH Applet
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ -- PuTTY, win32 SSH

Also, here's a webmail setup:
http://www.squirrelmail.org/

Unfortunately, all these clients require you to type a password of some
sort, and public computers might have keygrabbers on them, so use them
at your own peril.
-- 
Jonathan S Billings <billings at negate.org>
TSFNKP