From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 23 02:51:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA20051 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 02:51:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.gbdata.com (USR2-1.detnet.com [207.113.12.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA20046 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 02:51:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gclarkii@localhost) by main.gbdata.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA04351; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 04:51:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Gary Clark II Message-Id: <199704230951.EAA04351@main.gbdata.com> Subject: Re: uucico over ppp connection To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 04:51:14 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <19970423094731.BV30311@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Apr 23, 97 09:47:31 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch wrote: > As Gary Clark II wrote: > > > With this setup, I don't see why you would need the uucp unless they have > > a dynamic address setup. > > Because UUCP is the only really working batch file transmission > protocol, at least in the Unix world. The added overhead isn't > overwhelming, and with Taylor's `i' protocol, you even get > bidirectional transfers. > > I'm also using it to get all my mail and news, mostly over direct > modem links, but also over IP whenever i'm currently connected to the > Internet. What I ment is the simple fact that Sendmail would handle sending the queue to them if they had a static address and where on-line when the queue ran. > > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > Gary -- Gary Clark II (N5VMF) | I speak only for myself and "maybe" my company gclarkii@GBData.COM | Member of the FreeBSD Doc Team Providing Internet and ISP startups - http://WWW.GBData.com for information FreeBSD FAQ at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/docs/FAQ.latin1