From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 31 00:21:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA11454 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 31 May 1997 00:21:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id AAA11438 for ; Sat, 31 May 1997 00:21:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA18608 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 31 May 1997 09:21:42 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA10875; Sat, 31 May 1997 09:11:43 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970531091143.SA62500@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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 References: <199705310326.UAA13385@meerkat.mole.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199705310326.UAA13385@meerkat.mole.org>; from M.R.Murphy on May 30, 1997 20:26:03 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)