Your choir is singing to my preacher. I've got no problem making UUCP optional. I would install it, though it would be totally overlooked by most new comers. Which is probably a good thing.

I've had a few clients that wanted to do the SMTP thing on demand. Thankfully, after explaining what is involved, I haven't had to to that yet.

-- Jay

On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Michael Smith wrote:

->Jay D. Nelson stands accused of saying: ->> Sorry -- I guess I'm old fart hold outs. I use uucp and many of my clients ->> use uucp. From what I see, UUCP use is growing even though these machines ->> never show up in the maps. I think uucp will grow even more. -> ->The ISP I feed from is making a lot of money selling UUCP email ->services to small and medium-sized businesses, often in conjunction ->with web hosting services. UUCP has a great deal more flexibility ->than using dialup POP or push-SMTP, and it's a winner in the ->"security" argument too. -> ->> Perhaps the best approach, if you really want to take it out of the ->> standard distribution, is to make it an option at install time. Those that ->> don't know what it is won't install it anyway. -> ->This is likely to happen with the next generation of installation ->software. -> ->-- ->]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msm...@gsoft.com.au [[ ->]] Genesis Software gene...@gsoft.com.au [[ ->]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ->]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ->]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[ ->