USENIX Board Studies UUCP

Brad Templeton brad at looking.on.ca
Sat Nov 18 03:29:04 AEST 1989


In article <1989Nov16.182104.23746 at utzoo.uucp> henry at utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>If you really want a UUCP replacement to catch on, it has to be something
>that *everyone*, even the folks with nervous lawyers or absolutely no money,
>can run, and that vendors can distribute without extra paperwork or cost.

You mean like the group III FAX standard?   Yeah, right, a communications
protocol spoken by machines from hundreds of manufacturers, and you
actually have to pay for the hardware and/or software?

You're right, it'll never catch on, unless they give it away.  :-)
-- 
Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473



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