Date: Sat, 9 May 1998 01:07:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Dan Janowski <danj@3skel.com> To: drifter@stratos.net Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any one still use UUCP? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980509005935.26008A-100000@fnur.3skel.com> In-Reply-To: <199805082155.RAA00455@stratos.net>
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I'm in the US and I use UUCP. It is a little weird since it is starkly different than what most people are used to with the contemporary Internet. The best use that I have made of it is UUCP over TCP for scheduled mail transfers. Folks without a dedicated line and who don't want a dailup going up and down for each bit of mail sent out can benefit from UUCP's queuing and scheduling. It is also better than the sendmail domain queue run directive. The current sendmail with the uucp-dom mailer does great re-writing of addresses in the user@domain style without getting and !'s. It is quaint, quirky, and fun in a slightly masochistic way. The Taylor UUCP implementation the FreeBSD uses is much (MUCH) better than the old AT&T stuff. Dan On Fri, 8 May 1998 drifter@stratos.net wrote: > I got kind of curious about UUCP and am doing some light reading of > old AT&T documents about it. I got the impression that UUCP was really the > only way to go in the dark ages before the Internet was as wide-spread > as it is today. I probably got the wrong impression, but I am wondering > if UUCP is an old hold-over from earlier times whose days are numbered > or if it is still in wide use today -- and if so, why? > I'm not so sure I want to splurge for ORA UUCP right now, since > I don't think I'd be doing a lot with it any way. (I don't think there > are "public" UUCP cites to experiment with :) ) > So, is UUCP a dying art? Is it that some places just don't have > access to the Internet or an Ethernet, but they can arrange for UUCP? > Or is there some advantage to UUCP that I am not aware about? > > Just curious... -- danj@3skel.com Dan Janowski Triskelion Systems, Inc. Bronx, NY To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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