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Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou tzot at sil-tec.gr
Mon Dec 13 08:10:36 EST 2004 
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 21:44:02 -0600, rumours say that John Hunter
<jdhunter at ace.bsd.uchicago.edu> might have written:

>I'm a little confused by your request to send and receive email
>without accessing the internet, since email generally travels over the
>internet.  Do you only want to handle email over an internal network?
>Or did you mean that you wanted to do this without accessing an
>internet browser such as Internet Explorer?  I'm guessing the latter.

I guess he doesn't want the email *originating* application to access
the internet; rather to use some local MAPI object-model which then
takes care to forward messages over the local network or whatever the
setup is.
-- 
TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best.
"Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving." (from RFC1958)
I really should keep that in mind when talking with people, actually...
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