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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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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if that 56Kb line has now been replaced by a higher-speed frame relay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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