Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!dptg!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!snorkelwacker!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Imminent death of UUCP Zone predicted Message-ID: Date: 16 Jul 90 11:54:37 GMT References: <7499@gollum.twg.com> <1990Jul10.133026.18326@terminator.cc.umich.edu> <1990Jul11.204251.6990@chinet.chi.il.us> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 14 In article fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes: > Is it really worth working so hard to give life-support to broken > configurations, when it makes things worse for up-to-date configurations? When it's what AT&T, Intel, ISC, Unisys, and just about everyone else in the System V world ships to their customers... yes. In the real world, some guy at a small company (say, a parts house that's using a UNIX box for inventory control) decides they'd like to get onto uucp mail, so they hook it up. One of their customers (say, an automobile dealership) decides they want to get into the act... I've helped a few people set things like this up, and the machines they're using would make your head spin. Ever hear of Regulus? At least with AT&T style mail you know what you're getting. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.