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Date:      Thu, 14 Oct 1999 01:12:17 -0500 (CDT)
From:      James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net>
To:        David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>
Cc:        Jay Nelson <jdn@acp.qiv.com>, "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org>, Greg Lewis <glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeSSH
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910140111280.75869-100000@bsdie.rwsystems.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.991014003212.52479A-100000@shell-1.enteract.com>

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On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, David Scheidt wrote:
> Subject: Re: FreeSSH
> On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Jay Nelson wrote:
> > >> In the interests of minimising bloat we could balance its inclusion by
> > >> deleting something like, say, uucp.
> > >> (:-) for the uucps users)
> > >
> > >actually, i don't think this is a good idea. there are still a few (very
> > >few.. i hope) networks and LAN's that use UUCP for mail transfer and such.
> 
> Why are you hoping for very few users of UUCP?  It works quite well, and is
> very low maintance.  People who have intermittant connectivity have good
> reason to still use it.  I use it in a couple instances over FTP, because it
> has spooling and logging facilities built in.  

And controlled execution of remote commands, but this ain't the UUCP list - Jy@



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