Bingo!

[Sebastian Hagedorn]

-- Sebastian Hagedorn <hagedorn at uni-koeln.de> is rumored to have mumbled on 
16. November 2007 22:03:21 +0100 regarding Re: One more attempt: stuck 
processes:

> The question is how pop3d knows that the connection is dropped. And maybe
> that's really where dial-up comes into play. In don't know if you're in a
> position to test that, but what happens if you telnet to port 995 from
> dial-up and then drop the dial-up connection? I guess I might try that
> from home now.

That does it ... I disconnected my cable modem while having an open telnet 
connection to 995. Now that process is stuck.
--
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