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From: marc@aria.UUCP (Marco S Hyman)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: What should a new UUCP protocol do?
Message-ID: <336@aria.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 90 21:23:23 GMT
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In article <5134@orchid3.UUCP> king@motcid.UUCP (Steven King) writes:
    Any new protocol will have to be backward compatible with the older one.

Not so.  A new UUCP would have to be backward compatible, but not a new UUCP
protocol.  It is reasonable to require both ends of a connection to speak
the same protocol.  Old UUCPs or UUCP clones would just negotiate the use of
a different protocol.

BTW:  USENIX was looking at UUCP a few (6?) months ago.  Did anything ever
come out of that?

// marc
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