Bo Simonsen wrote in a message to Wes Garland:

 WG>  - Starting from a mailer -- I don't see any point to this in tcp/ip 
 WG> mode. Again, the mailer can't pass around the socket as stdin/stdout 
 WG> for the reasons mentioned above. 

 BS> I think Roy ment from a POTS mailer like Binkleyterm 

Yes.

 BS> whitch is running under Linux too, and it doesn't use getty/mgetty 
 BS> afaik.

It doesn't?  Hm.  I have yet to get a hold of the linux port of it.

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