Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!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: Date: 25 Jul 90 15:36:45 GMT References: <26A76773.3660@intercon.com> <720@logicon.com> <15697@bfmny0.BFM.COM> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 7 In article <15697@bfmny0.BFM.COM> tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) writes: > Have you noticed the death of the long bang path? ... as more and more > people register with the NIC and/or sign up with outfits like UUNET. ... and as more and more sites run pathalias and smail. That statistic does not necessarily imply that the PSTN is useless as a transport agent, nor that the UUCP maps are useless. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`