From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 3 00:42:27 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA28062 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 00:42:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA28056 for ; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 00:42:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id RAA00423; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 17:08:02 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19971003170802.12051@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 17:08:02 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: dk+@ua.net Cc: "Jay D. Nelson" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2nd Notice: 4 days to code freeze in RELENG_2_2 branch. References: <199710030604.XAA04517@dog.farm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <199710030604.XAA04517@dog.farm.org>; from Dmitry Kohmanyuk on Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 11:04:04PM -0700 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 11:04:04PM -0700, Dmitry Kohmanyuk wrote: > In article you wrote: >> Would it be possible to uncomment the HDB capabilities in UUCP for the >> next release? Even though UUCP died years ago, I'm converting more > > UUCP WHAT?? How else are you supposed to do mail backups with > other ISP, but with UUCP over TCP to your primary line? > The network I set up in university 2 years ago still works this way, > and mail goes in and out even if leased line and/or router died. > > What about hundreds of customers in xUSSR with non-nailed lines (which > are more expensive than dedicated ISDN in the U.S.?) etc. > > As for UUCP in FreeBSD tree, well, there were some problems reported > before, but I beleive they were all fixed. I certainly believe that reports of UUCP's death are greatly exaggerated. I'm documenting it in the second edition of "The Complete FreeBSD". That doesn't mean, of course, that I think HDB is the way to go. The Taylor semantics are much easier to handle. Greg