Date: Sat, 31 May 1997 09:55:29 +0100 From: Robin Melville <robmel@innotts.co.uk> To: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au>, Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uucp uid's Message-ID: <l03010d00afb58f21788d@[194.176.130.4]> In-Reply-To: <199705302355.JAA00230@topaz.nemeton.com.au> References: <199705301648.JAB07926@seagull.rtd.com>
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On Sat, 31 May 1997 09:55:17 +1000 Giles Lean wrote: >On Fri, 30 May 1997 09:48:43 -0700 (MST) Don Yuniskis wrote: > >> UUCP itself is a dinosaur. Yet, I see several places that use UUCP as >> their sole connection to the electronic world. Kinda tough to force >> a client/customer to do things *your* way when *he's* paying the >> bills! :> > >Hey, there's lots of money in dinosaurs! Isn't there a movie or >something? :-) Hey! UUCP is an excellent way to handle email if you don't have a permanent link. Far more efficient than monging ppp to dial up routinely then paying for dead time while it's timing out. Since uucp is specifically a batch-shifting protocol the line's only up for as long as needed to do the business. It's also reliable, secure & easy to configure (now that sendmail handles domainised uucp rewriting properly). Our organisation exchanges around 2-300 mail messages daily on a 2-hourly poll during working hours. Phone connect time amounts to around 2.5mins per day. Our provider MXs all mail for our nadt.org.uk domain to their uucp host so we can give every local user (currently around 110) a mailbox without bothering them. I also have a number of small business personal clients who use uucp for their organisation with great success. They can use the same modem for dial-on-demand ppp when they want to browse, ftp etc.. ISP's reselling to dialup commercial clients should consider uucp a useful part of a total package rather than a dinosaur. Horses for courses. Robin. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Melville, Addiction Information Services Nottingham Alcohol & Drug Team Tel: +44 (0)115 952 9478 Fax: +44 (0)115 952 9421 work: robmel@nadt.org.uk home: robmel@innotts.co.uk Pages: http://www.innotts.co.uk/~robmel (home page) http://www.innotts.co.uk/nadt (substance misuse pages) ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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