Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 09:11:43 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uucp uid's Message-ID: <19970531091143.SA62500@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199705310326.UAA13385@meerkat.mole.org>; from M.R.Murphy on May 30, 1997 20:26:03 -0700 References: <199705310326.UAA13385@meerkat.mole.org>
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As M.R.Murphy wrote: > > UUCP itself is a dinosaur. Yet, I see several places that use UUCP as > > their sole connection to the electronic world. > UUCP was a good dinosaur. It still has advantages in this highly > interconnected world. It's the only working batch file transmission protocol, at least in the Unix world. We (sax.de) still require all our clients to setup UUCP so they can get news and mail by it. -- 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. ;-)
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