Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Imminent death of UUCP Zone predicted Message-ID: <11R41EF@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 18 Jul 90 15:16:08 GMT References: <1990Jul10.133026.18326@terminator.cc.umich.edu> <1990Jul11.204251.6990@chinet.chi.il.us> <1990Jul16.202721.271@chinet.chi.il.us> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 14 In article <1990Jul16.202721.271@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes: > 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? > This attitude does a lot to explain the popularity of using fax machines > for anything important even when revisions need to be retyped. That's the bottom line, isn't it. Email is way more efficient than FAX, but it's just too inconvenient. What we need is a ".phone" domain. Mail to someone at "+17135551212.phone" is accomplished by making a call to +17135551212, logging in as anonymous, and sending mail. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.