[71421] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul S. Brown)
Mon Jun 14 16:59:10 2004
From: "Paul S. Brown" <pol@geekstuff.co.uk>
To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>,
Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:58:50 +0100
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <40CE0C06.4040509@he.iki.fi>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Monday 14 June 2004 21:35, Petri Helenius wrote:
> Niels Bakker wrote:
> >Except that the majority of people may have ended up at such ISPs (note
> >plural). Can you afford not to talk to them?
>
> Majority of people living in bad neighborhoods would be news. I=B4ll take
> sides if that happens.
>
> >For how long did you stick with just UUCP after SMTP entered the scene?
>
> We actually run UUCP over telnet for quite a while after SMTP happened.
>
I know of one ISP who, in the spirit of customer service, are still providi=
ng=20
UUCP to two customers now who are still running Wildcat 4.x and Terminus on=
=20
OS/2.
It's not dead yet, although many have tried to kill it. =20
P.
