16 Jan
2025
16 Jan
'25
8:53 p.m.
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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