[Info-vax] BITNET, was: Re: login information capture

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In article <leget7$3tk$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>Hunter Goatley wrote 2014-02-24 22:40:
>> My first 'net connection was via BITNET when I was at WKU. The first
>> version of my VMS Freeware Archive was a mail-based file server running
>> over BITNET (and gatewayed to the Internet). About a year after we got
>> online via BITNET (over a 9600-baud modem, no less!), we finally got a real
>> T1 connection to the state backbone....
>>
>> Hunter
>
>I was a "user" to that file server for many years.
>Realy clever where the mails was COM files with inline TPU
>scripts to rebuild the original file, if I'm not wrong (?).
>Just extract the parts from MAIL> and run with @.
>I think that there was a separate tool to do the
>extract and combine into one large file.
>
>(I may be mixing this up with some similar concept...)

You're not mixed up... them were the good ol' days. 

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