11 May
2018
11 May
'18
6:24 a.m.
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(a)orthanc.ca> wrote:
On May 10, 2018, at 7:10 AM, John P. Linderman
<jpl.jpl(a)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.