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Date:      Mon, 17 Sep 2001 23:36:20 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG, kris@obsecurity.org, lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca, Joe Abley <jabley@automagic.org>
Subject:   Re: Moving UUCP to ports
Message-ID:  <3BA6EB64.A4F9720C@mindspring.com>
References:  <XFMail.20010918154737.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> >  Leave it alone, unless you can identify a vendor who is
> >  maintaining it, and we can agree to select that vendor as
> >  the "official" vendor of UUCP, from this day forward.
> >
> >  Next people will be suggesting that we make /bin/ls a port...
> 
> Except that 100% of users use ls.
> About 0%* use UUCP.
> 
> * Straw poll from every person I've ever talked to about FreeBSD.

I use UUCP.  Unlike fetchmail, delivery of mail via UUCP over
TCP does not destroy envelope information, yet permits me to
run a server in dialup mode.

Another person just recently posted in favor of UUCP.

In any case, you have ignored the first argument: if FreeBSD
does not maintain UUCP for FreeBSD, who will maintain UUCP
for FreeBSD?

-- Terry

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