From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 3 14:49:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA14825 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 14:49:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iafnl.es.iaf.nl (uucp@iafnl.es.iaf.nl [195.108.17.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA14820 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 14:49:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA16952 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG); Fri, 3 Oct 1997 23:49:05 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.5/8.6.12) id TAA01259; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 19:03:22 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199710031803.TAA01259@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: UUCP To: pechter@lakewood.com Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 19:03:22 +0100 (MET) Cc: dk+@ua.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199710031354.JAA04901@i4got.lakewood.com> from "Bill Pechter" at Oct 3, 97 09:54:59 am X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Bill Pechter wrote... > > In article you wrote: > > > Would it be possible to uncomment the HDB capabilities in UUCP for the > > > next release? Even though UUCP died years ago, I'm converting more > > > > UUCP WHAT?? How else are you supposed to do mail backups with > > other ISP, but with UUCP over TCP to your primary line? > > The network I set up in university 2 years ago still works this way, > > and mail goes in and out even if leased line and/or router died. > > > > What about hundreds of customers in xUSSR with non-nailed lines (which > > are more expensive than dedicated ISDN in the U.S.?) etc. > > > > As for UUCP in FreeBSD tree, well, there were some problems reported > > before, but I beleive they were all fixed. > > > > I still think that FreeBSD should adopt the position of supporting HDB > V2 uucp configuration files in the system. (I have to rebuild uucp > after all the make worlds with my own patches to do so...) No thanks. HDB config files are a pain IMHO. _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' ----------------------------------------------------------------------Yoda