Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!talos!kjones
From: kjones@talos.pm.com (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Imminent death of UUCP Zone predicted
Message-ID: <1990Jul23.163309.23842@talos.pm.com>
Date: 23 Jul 90 16:33:09 GMT
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Kyle Jones writes:
 > Eh?  If it's important, then we set up a direct connection and
 > cut out the middleman.  I mean, if you're going to make the phone
 > call anyway, you might as well do it right.

Leslie Mikesell writes:
 > I'd love to.  How do you set up a direct connection to BITNET sites?

Well, of course there has to be a common file transfer program
that runs on both systems.  It doesn't have to be uucp--- kermit,
xmodem or whatever will do.  Once the mail file is on the other
system you can inject it into the mail system, put it into the
recipient user's home directory or whatever.

The point I was making was that the one-time setup costs to get
two systems to talk to one another are easily made up by not
having to re-enter all the documents you subsequently send over
the link.  There's no way I'd consider using FAX for something
that's going to go right back into a computer anyway.