RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] free telnet account?

["Ross, Matt" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Thanks, freeshell seems to do the job, limitedly of course, but actually,
less limited than what I'm using now (or was using till they took away
pine).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Scott [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 1:09 PM
> To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
> Subject: Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] free telnet account?
> 
> 
> Ross, Matt wrote:
> 
> >Is there any free email account out there that offers the 
> ability to telnet
> >in to check mail that y'all would recommend?  My Lincoln 
> University account
> >dies May 10, my work account dies when my 1000 hours runs 
> out for the year,
> >and I'm not eager to pay $19 just to get a hotmail account 
> that M$ runs.
> >
> You're looking for a shell account, which is getting rarer and rarer 
> every day.  Here are couple shell providers that I know of that have 
> been around for a LONG time and don't look like they're giving up:
> 
> Panix, est. 1989 - http://www.panix.com/ - $10/month
> SDF, est. 1987 - http://www.freeshell.org/ - $37 lifetime 
> access (they 
> also offer extremely limited shells for free.)
> 
> Both still offer telnet access (ssh as well for the security-minded.) 
>  Both will also host the mail for your own domain for a 
> reasonable fee. 
>  I've never had an account at Panix, so I can't comment on their 
> service.  From the little bit that I've used my free SDF account,  it 
> looks like they're committed to good shell accounts (on "real" Unix 
> hardware - Alphas. :)
> 
> Ian Scott
> 
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