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From: fair@Apple.COM (Erik E. Fair)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: USENIX Board Studies UUCP
Message-ID: <37221@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Dec 89 12:03:32 GMT
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In the referenced article, meissner@dg-rtp.dg.com (Michael Meissner) writes:
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>Another thing to look into is dealing with small mail messages as well
>as the large news batches.  As I understand the way uucp works, it has
>to syncronize both ends when each file is completely transfered.  This
>leads to poor performance if you don't have a large file to amortize
>the startup and shutdown costs before the next file is transfered.

This is the problem that BSMTP can solve (as I mentioned a week or two ago).

	Erik E. Fair	apple!fair	fair@apple.com