Re: Thread Stealing (was: Installing debian via network)
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 07:55:30AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Joshua Lee writes:
> > However, it should be pretty easy to implement a script that would run
> > pon, fetch your mail, and run poff to disconnect once successful though.
[...]
> soon as it receives it from your MUA (e.g. mutt, gnus, etc.). If pppd is
> configured for demand dialing (use pppconfig) it will immediately dial up
> and the message will be delivered. Then waiting mail will be downloaded and
[...]
> A rule of thumb for Linux: When you think "there ought to be a way to do
> this" there usually is.
A rule of thumb for Perl that also applies to Linux is "there's more than
one way to do it". :-)
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