Overview
The infrastructure described in this chapter uses the
client/server model to provide a public mail service through
the telephone line. In this configuration, we (the poeple
building the infrastructure) provide the information you (the
person using the infrastructure) need to know in order to
establish a point-to-point connection from the client computer
to the server computer through the telephone line.
The infrastructure described in this chapter is made available
to you free of charge, however, you should know that
maintaining it costs both money and time. For example, for
each hour the server computer is on production there is an
electrical consume that need to be paid every month.
Likewise, each call that you establish from the client
computer to the server computer will cost you money, based on
the location you made the call from and the time you spend
connected.
In this chapter we discuss usage convenctions we all must be
agree with, in order to achieve a practical and secure
interchange system.