On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 9:51 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:

On Fri, 10 Mar 2017, Steve Simon wrote:

> Maybe its the same one, but I remeber a special UUCP protocol which had
> its MTU and timeouts carefully adjusted to get the best performance
> across X25.

And there was yet another variation ("s"?) designed for satellite
circuits.

It seems that there was a whole slew of protocols at one time. Interestingly, the FreeBSD documentation still includes a fairly extensive description of UUCP (I guess these are really the `info` pages from Taylor UUCP) that describe a number of different protocols: https://docs.freebsd.org/info/uucp/uucp.info.Protocols.html

- Dan C.