From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jun 25 6: 1:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from loki.intrepid.net (intrepid.net [204.71.127.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 663F614C09 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 06:01:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@loki.intrepid.net) Received: (from mark@localhost) by loki.intrepid.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA16199; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 08:58:03 -0400 Message-ID: <19990625085803.A14126@intrepid.net> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 08:58:03 -0400 From: Mark Conway Wirt To: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , Leif Neland Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why not uucp, instead of smtp and static ip? References: <00c901bebe64$f5267d60$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> <19990624195332.F1893@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2 In-Reply-To: <19990624195332.F1893@daemon.ninth-circle.org>; from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai on Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 07:53:32PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 07:53:32PM +0200, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > * Leif Neland (leifn@neland.dk) [990624 19:17]: > > > > 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? > > It seems nowadays nobody knows how to set it up anymore. I Think it's more appropriate to say that "nowadays no MTA seem to understand it" ;-) I hate issuing static IP's to dialup accounts -- even business class, but with both MS Exchange and Lotus's products, you have no choice. They're a bit brain dead.... --Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message