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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 00:37:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Tao <taob@io.org>
To: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
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On 16 Jul 1996, Michael Graff wrote:
>
> you can always use ``login foo'' and that is supposed to let someone else
> log in, kinda in mid session and all.

    Hmmm... that's hardly ever done, at least around here.  "exec
telnet localhost" would serve the same purpose, I guess.
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Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net)
Senior Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp.
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"