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From: king@motcid.UUCP (Steven King)
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Subject: Re: What should a new UUCP protocol do?
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Date: 8 Nov 90 14:27:05 GMT
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In article <1990Nov8.033541.1039@grumpy.boston.ma.us> johna@grumpy.boston.ma.us (John Adams) writes:
>We want a protocol which is supported by all callable uucp sites.
>Do you intend to distribute patches for all existing UUCP binaries?
>A new protocol may have merit but only if it's widely distributed.

And not to forget non-Unix machines.  There are a fair number of sites
based on other platforms that are using UUCP clones to handle transfers.
Any new protocol will have to be backward compatible with the older one.

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