thousands of people. You will get yourself onto all kinds of block lists. So do be careful when you're doing an email server that is going to be public facing. All right, next up is PPP, which is the point-to-point protocol. This is a protocol for sending data over serial links. This is the protocol that, you know, thousands and millions of people used to use to connect to the internet with their modem. That's what this would do, is negotiate a connection with the remote host and establish a network between the two points, point-to-point protocol. You can legitimately use it still today, as long as you have an ISP with a phone number that you can dial, you know, through a modem. An internet provider running a PPP daemon for you to connect to. And the easiest way to do that is to run user sbin pppsetup. All one string, pppsetup. And that brings up a nice in-curses interface that prompts you for a phone number. There's a bunch of caveats in there about you have to use some prefix that (33/53)
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