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- From: john@gulfa.kuwait.net (John W. Temples)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Is UUCP is critical feature for Unix machine?
- Date: 10 Jan 1996 18:20:14 +0300
- Organization: Gulfnet Kuwait
- Message-ID: <4d0lfe$n4m@gulfa.kuwait.net>
- References: <4cce5p$605@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> <DKuGFn.7zt@bokonon.ussinc.com>
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- In article <DKuGFn.7zt@bokonon.ussinc.com>,
- Stephen M. Dunn <stephen@bokonon.ussinc.com> wrote:
-
- > If you're not passing much UUCP traffic, though, then
- >UUCP spoofing won't really give you much of a benefit.
-
- That's the bottom line. Personally, I've not touched UUCP in nearly
- three years. It's been SLIP/PPP all the way for dialup.
-
- >And if you're not using UUCP-g, chances are your modem won't
- >spoof whatever UUCP protocol you _are_ using.
-
- And if you have control over both ends of the link, you can install
- something like Taylor UUCP which, without requiring spoofing, will
- perform better than "regular" UUCP with spoofing.
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