Subject: Re: newbie pop3 and DNS

From: [email-masked] (James Seymour)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 08:17:53 -0500 (EST)

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> From: [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 14:21:03 +0300
> Message-Id: <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Re: newbie pop3 and DNS
> 
> Blair Lowe <[email-masked]> said :
> 
> > You may want to know that running pop on the Internet can be a bad 
> > idea. Anyone sniffing packets can read your email password, as it is 
> > sent in plain text.
> 
> Wrong.
>
[remainder snipped]

It *is*???

That's news to me.  And, I would imagine, to a lot of other people as
well!

Regards
Jim
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