Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!sharkey!math.lsa.umich.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!emv From: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Subject: Re: Imminent death of UUCP Zone predicted In-Reply-To: scs@vax3.iti.org's message of 10 Jul 90 17:21:11 GMT Message-ID: Sender: usenet@math.lsa.umich.edu Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept., Ann Arbor MI. References: <1990Jul10.132415.18104@terminator.cc.umich.edu> <1990Jul10.172111.19334@iti.org> Date: 10 Jul 90 15:53:55 Lines: 26 In article <1990Jul10.172111.19334@iti.org> scs@vax3.iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes: >honey@doom.ifs.umich.edu writes: > but what happens, karl, when you move on to that high-paying silicon > valley job, leaving confusion and turmoil behind? While OSUs commmitment to unix support is clearly more consistant than UofMs, Peter is correct in noting a single point of failure is not a good way of doing things. A2 has been thru several cycles of feast and famine, and those cycles stopped only when we went to multiple sources of support. Steve, what you really mean is that once some sites that used to be uucp sites paid their $$$$ and got on the internet for real, things got better. I'd point to iti, Ocwin, now GM Research as being key additions. Sites which once were a cost to support at UM are now completely autonomous and able to provide services to others. Unless U of Michigan units start to try to do cost recovery for uucp services (and thus start to throw scarce unix expertise at it), I suspect the big growth in state-wide connectivity will be dedicated lines for IP traffic to former UUCP-only sites. --Ed Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept (formerly uunet!umix!emv)