From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 6 14:33:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA00720 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 14:33:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA00697 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 14:33:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id XAA22156 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 23:32:15 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.8.6/brasil-1.2) with UUCP id XAA24050 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 23:31:47 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.7/keltia-2.11/nospam) id XAA21286; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 23:07:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roberto) Message-ID: <19971006230747.20553@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 1997 23:07:47 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UUCP (important clarification) References: <19971005234534.44590@dog.farm.org> <2369.876125643@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84 In-Reply-To: <2369.876125643@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Mon, Oct 06, 1997 at 01:14:03AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Jordan K. Hubbard: > Anyone masochistic enough to still use UUCP in this day and age is > also capable of fixing any breakage that may occur, I think. Go for it. ;) If it could be that simple (I don't mind being labelled masochistic) but in some countries like France or Germany, you pay phone calls by the minute and when you want to transfer mail & news, you appreciate UUCP, the automatic connections, the compression of news batches and so on. Remember how much we pay for a mere 64 Kbps line ? -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: There are no limits -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #35: Sun Sep 21 19:28:07 CEST 1997