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Subject:Re: Keep UUCP (Was: Re: security hole in FreeBSD)
From:Dmitry Kohmanyuk (dk@dog.farm.org)
Date:Aug 1, 1997 10:32:53 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-security

In article <1997@grendel.IAEhv.nl> you wrote:

Jay D. Nelson shared with us:

Sometimes I think we can be too "internet-centric" for our own good. UUCP makes good security and economic sense.

[lotsa points deleted]

Make it an install option if you want, but leave it as a part of the standard distribution.

I can only agree with this. As long as queued SMTP isn't commonly used, keep UUCP. (And then there's the News thing, too.)

also, why you folks think uucp is only for e-mail?

it's also a nice remote batch executition environment. (works over TCP, too.)

Consider:

uux 'host1!prog -flags' 'host2!file1' 'host3!file2'

(I actually use it this way.)

For a non-connected host, who wants to use standard mailers like Mutt or Elm, there's no real alternative.

I have set up a network in university to use uucp backup for mail with dial-out when leased line came down on weekends... It still works.

-- "The number of Unix installations has grown to 10, with more expected" - The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June, 1972