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Date:      Tue, 02 Oct 2001 10:35:14 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@atg.aciworldwide.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject:   Re: uucp user shell and home directory
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20011002103514.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <200110011826.f91IQk8f015078@atg.aciworldwide.com>

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On 01-Oct-2001 Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>  UUCP still gets used. It's one of the few sane ways to handle email in
>  a laptop environment when you're always connecting through different
>  dialups/ISPs. It has mostly fallen out of favour due to ignorance and
>  FUD. Which is a shame, as it can still be a useful tool in certain
>  situations.

I think a more 'modern' solution is POP or IMAP over SSH, you can also feed
SMTP over an SSH tunnel too (This is what I use).

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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