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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: UUCP for Mac??
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Date: 9 Apr 91 14:13:14 GMT
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>Eudora is not a UUCP implementation but rather a POP client (requiring
>a POP server on the Unix end).  The difference?  With POP, your address
>is the host where the POP server is located.  With UUCP, your Mac/PC
>itself becomes a node on the network.

Agreed.  This can be a benefit or a liability.

More fundamentally, though, UUCP is a general file transfer facility,
on top of which are built services like mail or news.

It would even be possible to adapt Eudora for use with UUCP; the pieces are
almost all there.  Someday, perhaps.
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu  UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner