Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 11:53:32 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: drifter@stratos.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any one still use UUCP? Message-ID: <19980512115332.62287@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <199805082155.RAA00455@stratos.net>; from drifter@stratos.net on Fri, May 08, 1998 at 05:55:15PM -0400 References: <199805082155.RAA00455@stratos.net>
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In <199805082155.RAA00455@stratos.net>, drifter@stratos.net wrote: > So, is UUCP a dying art? Is it that some places just don't have > access to the Internet or an Ethernet, but they can arrange for UUCP? > Or is there some advantage to UUCP that I am not aware about? In fact, the copy of your mail I read was tranferred by uucp (over tcp). Mail batching is easier and more flexible if you use uucp. The sendmail queue trick works only if the target machine isn't reachable. My mail-reading machine is reachable, but every single connect costs 12 Pfennig (Germany...), so I batch manually, while a "real" tcp sendmail would contact my machine verytime a mail @freebsd.org arrives. Also, I can easily compress mails, which is a great thing for German users who pay on a per-megabyte count. Not that it speeds up much for small mails, but it is cheaper. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer BSD User Group Hamburg, Germany http://www.bsdhh.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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