[PLUG-TALK] Shell account, somewhere?

[Larry Brigman]

On 7/27/07, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:
>
> For the past 8 years, I've had a shell account at a local university,
> which I used a few times a year when I wanted to test mail and other
> connectivity to and from my server.  I no longer have that account,
> but still have occasional testing needs and emergency needs.
>
> Does anyone have a well-maintained server on which I can maintain
> a shell and mail account? It would get emails from the mailing lists
> I maintain (forwarded back to me), and every few months I would run
> a shell script to send out a few dozen emails when I am testing my
> own email server after an upgrade.   Somewhat less often, I would
> use it for emergency email when my systems are down, but that is
> rare, and I probably should use gmail for that anyway.  I would
> access it using ssh.
>
> I would establish a reciprocal relationship, but right now I don't
> have any user accounts on my outside server, and my inside machines
> are too well buried to be of much use to others.  Perhaps there are
> other things we can trade.
>

I don't have one but I have used agora.rdrop.com in the past.  You can contact
the site owner and work something out. I have traded steeply
discounted disk drives
that I could get for