Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 08:25:24 -0500 (CDT) From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu> To: James Seng <jseng@pobox.org.sg> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: security hole in FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.970730081741.28118A-100000@popeye.cs.iastate.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970730223202.0070ef8c@student.anu.edu.au>
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(Redirected to chat...) On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, James Seng wrote: > I have not heard of any request for the use UUCP from my users nor is my > UUCP binaries been used in the last few years...I think the time when lease > line is expensive, when university work with 9,600bps (wow) connection and > when UUCP rules the earth is over...we have to let it go and look forward. *8) It was a nice surprise six years ago when I provisioned a 56Kb digital circuit from USWest and its monthly cost was 1/3 of the monthly cost of the 9600-baud analog leased line it replaced. I wouldn't be too surprised if that 56Kb line has now been replaced by a higher-speed frame relay circuit for not much more money... UUCP has its (dwindling) place, but most people want live connections for their web browser :-) Guy Helmer, Computer Science Graduate Student - ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu Iowa State University http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer
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