So calling them "uucp bag files" is akin to calling something an "ed editor file" because the ed editor was able to update them?

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 7:38 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:

> On May 10, 2018, at 7:10 AM, John P. Linderman <jpl.jpl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I asked Dave Nowitz, one of the authors of HoneyDanBer UUCP (the others being Peter Honeyman and Brian Redman) if he knew what bag files were. He said
>
> Never heard of bag files.

We always referred to them as "rnews batches," since that's what they were.