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From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: USENIX Board Studies UUCP
Message-ID: <49017@looking.on.ca>
Date: 17 Nov 89 16:29:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: looking.49017
References: <287@usenix.UUCP> <1624@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <1989Nov16.182104.23746@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd.
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In article <1989Nov16.182104.23746@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>If you really want a UUCP replacement to catch on, it has to be something
>that *everyone*, even the folks with nervous lawyers or absolutely no money,
>can run, and that vendors can distribute without extra paperwork or cost.

You mean like the group III FAX standard?   Yeah, right, a communications
protocol spoken by machines from hundreds of manufacturers, and you
actually have to pay for the hardware and/or software?

You're right, it'll never catch on, unless they give it away.  :-)
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473