Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: SLIP or PPP instead of G proto (Re: USENIX Board Studies UUCP)
Message-ID: <1989Dec14.162303.21946@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <320@cfcl.UUCP> <7228@ficc.uu.net> <37222@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 89 16:23:03 GMT

In article <37222@apple.Apple.COM> fair@Apple.COM (Erik E. Fair) writes:
>Peter, what you describe is the same (functionally) as UUCP is now. If
>you're not going to use it interactively, why bother to "connect" over
>a dialup link with IP?

Apart from the potential for interoperability, which Peter has already
mentioned, there is the not-inconsequential issue of using a protocol
which is *documented* (in a complete, accurate, and redistributable way).
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