Screening outgoing Email...

["Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr () nfr net>]

(Forgive the DOS commands, this is a DOS program I am using...)

Let's see, here's a message I just typed in....

C:\tmp>type message

This is a posting to firewall-wizards. It is
relatively innocuous. Honestly. Please let this
message out past your firewall. Fnord, fnord,
fnord, fnord.

mjr.

C:\tmp>

Then I use a program called "snow" for DOS.  You can get it
from various places.

C:\tmp> snow -p whumpus -m "hi there" message message.out
Message used approximately 51.61% of available space.
C:\tmp>type message.out

This is a posting to firewall-wizards. It is
relatively innocuous. Honestly. Please let this
message out past your firewall. Fnord, fnord,
fnord, fnord.

mjr.

C:\tmp>

Pretty cool, huh?? Now look at it in "vi" (yes there "vi" for DOS)

C:\tmp> vi message.out
:set list

^I ^I     ^I   ^I  ^I   ^I      ^I ^I   $
This is a posting to firewall-wizards. It is^I   ^I       ^I
relatively innocuous. Honestly. Please let this^I ^I     ^I
message out past your firewall. Fnord, fnord,    ^I ^I     $
fnord, fnord.^I$
$
mjr.$



mjr.
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