From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Sep 17 23:36: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 052A037B405 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 23:36:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.141.224.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.141.224]) by robin.mail.pas.earthlink.net (8.11.5/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f8I6ZXI20428; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 23:35:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3BA6EB64.A4F9720C@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 23:36:20 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, kris@obsecurity.org, lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca, Joe Abley Subject: Re: Moving UUCP to ports References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Leave it alone, unless you can identify a vendor who is > > maintaining it, and we can agree to select that vendor as > > the "official" vendor of UUCP, from this day forward. > > > > Next people will be suggesting that we make /bin/ls a port... > > Except that 100% of users use ls. > About 0%* use UUCP. > > * Straw poll from every person I've ever talked to about FreeBSD. I use UUCP. Unlike fetchmail, delivery of mail via UUCP over TCP does not destroy envelope information, yet permits me to run a server in dialup mode. Another person just recently posted in favor of UUCP. In any case, you have ignored the first argument: if FreeBSD does not maintain UUCP for FreeBSD, who will maintain UUCP for FreeBSD? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message