Path: utzoo!utgpu!BITNIC!FUTURE-L Date: Mon, 26 Feb 90 13:42:00 EST Reply-To: BITNET Futures List Sender: BITNET Futures List From: Cliff Frost {415} 642-5360 Subject: fall of Bitnet To: UofToronto LAN redistribution References: FUTURE-L at BITNIC -- Sun, 25 Feb 90 17:32:00 CST Message-ID: <90Feb26.145915est.57377@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Newsgroups: list.future-l Distribution: ut Approved: devnull@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu >I know of no service provided by either Bitnet or UUCP that cannot be >easily duplicated (and for the most part already is duplicated) on >the Internet. Then drop off (or out of) BITNET. I certainly don't recommend running NJE or UUCP over IP unless you or the users you serve detect enough value from it to justify the effort! >Why deal with the technical headaches of running one protocol over >another? I hope you're not asking 'why bother running IP?'... ;-) The group I'm in doesn't do UUCP for folks--there's been very little demand for it, if any. We do BITNET because of the massive demand for it, and because it is much more economical than trying to duplicate the functionality for our users in any other way. There are people I know who find great value in UUCP over IP, though, and so they do it where they need to--it isn't really all that hard. And all of us are IP bigots. Cliff