Subject: accounting software for emails

From: Sapan Goel <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 08:16:31 +0500 (GMT+0500)

Hi,

I want to make accounting software on pine so that i can charge the users 
of the emails that they are sending and receiveing. If anyone can provide 
anyhelp in this regard will be of great use to me.

Regards,

-- Sapan

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From: Matt Simmons <[email-masked]>
Date: 29 Sep 1997 22:06:09 -0500

> anyhelp in this regard will be of great use to me.
Did I just read what I think I just read?

Matt (looking around warily for the legendary pouncing Robin)

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 11:55:57 +0800 (GMT)

> anyhelp in this regard will be of great use to me.

You don't want to do that in "pine" since "pine" is a user agent.  You
want to parse the logs on your mailhost.  Probably "syslog".  There may be
SW already available for "sendmail".  You should try "comp.mail.sendmail".

Regards

-- 
Edward M. Greshko                  Technical Manager, Electronic Commerce
                                   Control Data Asia/Pacific Region
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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 30 Sep 1997 08:26:35 +0200

>> "MS" == Matt Simmons <[email-masked]> writes:

MS> Sapan Goel <[email-masked]> writes:
>> I want to make accounting software on pine so that i can charge the
>> users of the emails that they are sending and receiveing. If anyone
>> can provide anyhelp in this regard will be of great use to me.

MS> Did I just read what I think I just read?

No, you didn't. This was a joke. A bad joke. I'm still tempted to
check what Mr. Goel's accounting software would think about something
like this done over a 100Mbit line:

while `cat /dev/null`
do
echo Charge me if you like... | mail [email-masked]
done

Maybe playtime's over - what do you think, Matt? 

Cheers,
Robin

-- 
Robin S. Socha, M.A.
Political Science Dept., Bonn University 
Masochist: Windows programmer with a smile!