On 08/05/2020 19:13, Paul Mansfield wrote:
When I was an undergrad at university I discovered the % method of relaying mails through other servers. We used to have competitions to have the maximum time taken for an email to come back, ideally sending email via as many countries as possible. I think the longest was over a day.
When I was an undergrad I wrote up a document on how to get uuencoded data from ListServs through the various relays that would corrupt them because they didn't use ASCII.
The doc was widely distributed (although I can't find a copy any more) and I was exchanging emails about it with one of the admins of the "simtel20" ListServ archive.
Unknown to me, simtel20 was by then on a US military site (White Sands Missile Range) and the university email system had started "helpfully" doing the appropriate gatewaying from our JANET x.25 system into the IP world.
Several months later I got a nasty-gram from the mail admins at relay.mod.uk asking why I was using their relay...
Ray
