Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 17:08:02 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: dk+@ua.net Cc: "Jay D. Nelson" <jdn@qiv.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2nd Notice: 4 days to code freeze in RELENG_2_2 branch. Message-ID: <19971003170802.12051@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199710030604.XAA04517@dog.farm.org>; from Dmitry Kohmanyuk on Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 11:04:04PM -0700 References: <199710030604.XAA04517@dog.farm.org>
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On Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 11:04:04PM -0700, Dmitry Kohmanyuk wrote: > In article <Pine.BSF.3.96.970926195319.253A-100000@acp.qiv.com> 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
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