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From: wcs@cbnewsh.att.com (Bill Stewart 201-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Dial up access to Internet facilities
Message-ID: <1990Jun6.001537.12371@cbnewsh.att.com>
Date: 6 Jun 90 00:15:37 GMT
References: <118@ultrix.uhasun.hartford.edu> <9005302148.AA02245@psi.com> <1990May31.211414.8140@utzoo.uucp>
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In article <1990May31.211414.8140@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
]The reason why a zoology department (!) was a major networking hub
]at U of T for some years was that everybody else was so obsessed with
]Internet (or better) performance that they wouldn't even look at silly
]ideas like networking via low-speed modems.  

]-- 
]As a user I'll take speed over|     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
]features any day. -A.Tanenbaum| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu

It's nice to see that Henry does have a balanced view of things,
regardless of what his .signature may imply :-)  (Tanenbaum, aside
from any OSI politics, is the author of Minix, which was designed to
provide features at the cost of some speed on a machine where speed
was in short supply already - a successful and nice project.)

I've always been surprised at how much you could accomplish with UUCP;
my main disagreement with the SMTP approach, other than the
appalling overcomplexity of sendmail, is that it wants to make a
connection NOW, and send traffic the whole way, rather than settling
for store-and-foreward on a message basis.  While uucp was always a
pain to maintain, the major cause of problems seemed to be
inadequate numbers of modem ports.
-- 
				Thanks;  Bill
# Bill Stewart AT&T Bell Labs 4M312 Holmdel NJ 201-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs
# Actually, it's *two* drummers, and we're not marching, we're *dancing*.
# But that's the general idea.