Date: Tue, 12 May 1998 09:59:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.tera.com> To: cracauer@cons.org (Martin Cracauer) Cc: drifter@stratos.net, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any one still use UUCP? Message-ID: <199805121659.JAA05172@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <19980512115332.62287@cons.org> from Martin Cracauer at "May 12, 98 11:53:32 am"
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
According to Martin Cracauer: > 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. > Another use for UUCP//email is retrieving files via ftpmail (or bitftp). A port that I recently submitted, rftp, reconstructs ftpmail-fetched tarballs from their many (dozens, scores) of email messages and puts the reconstructed file into a directory. This was useful for all the years that my only link was a uucp site 3500km from where I was. gary To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199805121659.JAA05172>