I knew a guy once who worked in a call centre, he did not have web access, but had email access.
If he wanted to view a web page he sent an email to some external provider with the url in the body of the email, and a short time later he would get the web page back as an attachment. OK so he was getting around a restriction imposed by his employers, but he wasn't doing toooo much harm :) Secondly I have seen an email to fax gateway implemented in this way. Thirdly you could use it to do something like home control To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Warm up TURNON AIR_CONDITIONING 22C Plus some authentication!! On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:30:00 -0400 Robert G. Hays wrote: > A. Khattri wrote: > > >Sounds like a great way to send spam. > > > Or worse. Why is this needed? > rgh. > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch <http://www.rout.co.nz> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
