Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!microsoft!stevesc From: stevesc@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Schonberger) Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix Subject: Re: USENIX Board Studies UUCP Message-ID: <9376@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 8 Dec 89 05:01:17 GMT References: <93061@pyramid.pyramid.com> Reply-To: stevesc@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Schonberger) Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 21 In article zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) writes: >>Clearly, the Telebit 'g' spoof works well for us now. Philosophically, >>though, it bothers me that we have an OS as vendor-independent as UNIX, >>yet we are so dependent on Telebit. Ideally, other equipment should be >All we really need is for vendors to fix the larger packet sizes >code in uucp so that acks will fit in small reverse channels. Telebit >has made alot of money providing a workaround for this "bug" in uucp. Things like this can be done to fix the problem between pairs of sites. Assuming sites A and B have a large-packet uucp but C just has regular uucp, A and B can configure their mail to use enhanced uucp between each other, but old uucp with C, just as is now done when A and B are on the Internet but C isn't. The change doesn't have to happen for everyone at once. Unless there's something particularly hardware dependent about uucp, an enhanced public domain version could be posted and soon a lot of sites could be using it. -- Steve Schonberger microsoft!stevesc@uunet.uu.net "Working under pressure is the sugar that we crave" --A. Lamb