Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 17:45:58 -0400 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: giles@nemeton.com.au Cc: dgy@rtd.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uucp uid's Message-ID: <199706012145.RAA32419@diazepam.gnu.ai.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199705302355.JAA00230@topaz.nemeton.com.au> (message from Giles Lean on Sat, 31 May 1997 09:55:17 %2B1000)
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>> UUCP itself is a dinosaur. Yet, I see several places that use UUCP as >> their sole connection to the electronic world. Kinda tough to force >> a client/customer to do things *your* way when *he's* paying the >> bills! :> >Hey, there's lots of money in dinosaurs! Isn't there a movie or >something? :-) >UUCP has a little life in it yet, as it is easier to secure than >dialup IP and is handy for the rare occasion when reliable spooling >and data transfer is required over an intermittent connection. I agree. For a lot of tasks, uucp is considerably nicer than trying to deal with all sorts of PPP and POP and other protocols, particularly across a fairly static network of Unix boxes. -- http://www.wp.com/piquan --- Joel Ray Holveck --- joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu All my opinions are my own, not the Free Software Foundation's. Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped
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