From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jun 25 5:54:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1953114C09 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 05:54:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA12232; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 08:53:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 08:53:18 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey To: Kurt Jaeger Cc: Leif Neland , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why not uucp, instead of smtp and static ip? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org pop3 gateways are easiest On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! > > > I just wonder, when holding mail for a domain, which picks it up by dialin > > and doing smtp/etrn, one almost is forced to issue static ip's. > > > > Why not use uucp? Is it just considered old-fashioned, nobody understands > > how to set it up, or are there heavy reasons not to use uucp? > > All this. We still do it. It's a pain. > > -- > MfG/Best regards, Kurt Jaeger 21 years to go ! > LF.net GmbH pi@LF.net Oberon.net GmbH pi@oberon.net > Vor dem Lauch 23 fon +49 711 90074-23 Friedrich-Ebert-Str.1 > D-70567 Stuttgart fax +49 711 7289041 40210 Duesseldorf fon +49 211 179253-11 > For Redmond: "nuke the site from orbit -- it's the only way to be sure." > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message