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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: What should a new UUCP protocol do?
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Date: 8 Nov 90 18:20:23 GMT
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 >It would also be great to be able to use uucp interactively, in
 >the way of a Kermit server...
 >
 >BETTER ERROR MESSAGES!!!!  Please tell the user what really went
 >wrong.  No more NFW errors!
 >
 >A better UUX command.
 >
 >Built-in Pathalias or mail path resolution.
 >
 >Start with the basics interface, as well as the protocol.  Efficiency
 >and user friendliness would help just as much as speed.

All the above are nice, *but* far beyond the scope of what I infer ISC
is thinking of doing - I think they're just looking at doing a new
low-level protocol, at the same level as the "g", "e", "t", "f", etc.
protocols.  You're asking for a new UUCP, not a new UUCP protocol; I
don't have any problem with that, just bear in mind that it sounds like
it's outside the cope of what ISC wants to do....