<div dir="auto">Michael has explained his authorship of UUCP as a stop gap. The networking team was building the real solution and it was due in three weeks. So he wrote UUCP to fill in until the official solution arrived.<br clear="all"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>=====<br><a href="http://nygeek.net" target="_blank">nygeek.net</a></div><div><a href="https://www.mindthegapdialogs.com/home" target="_blank">mindthegapdialogs.com/home</a><br></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM Douglas McIlroy <<a href="mailto:douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu">douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">> I often repeat a throwaway sentence that UUCP was Lesk, </div><div dir="ltr">> building a bug fix distribution mechanism.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">> Am I completely wrong? I am sure Mike said this to me mid 80s.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div>That was an important motivating factor, but Mike also had an </div><div>unerring anticipatory sense of public "need". Thus his programs</div><div>spread like wildfire despite their bugs. UUCP itself is the premier<br></div><div>example. Its popularity impelled its inclusion in v7 despite its</div><div>woeful disregard for security.</div><div><br></div><div>> Does anyone have [Robert Morris's UUCP CSTR]? Doug?</div><div><br></div><div>Not I.</div><div><br></div><div>Doug</div></div></div>
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