[TUHS] Robert Morris's UUCP
Alexander Schreiber
als at thangorodrim.ch
Fri Jan 17 06:53:29 AEST 2025
On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 02:29:23PM -0500, Marc Donner wrote:
> 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.
And it's still around many, many years later, as is typical for "this is
just a temporary solution" - I'm still getting my mail via UUCP these
days (although it's UUCP-over-VPN-over-IP).
Kind regards,
Alex.
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