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Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Mon Jun 14 17:35:41 2004

Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:05:12 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <200406142158.50123.pol@geekstuff.co.uk>
To: "Paul S. Brown" <pol@geekstuff.co.uk>
Cc: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>,
	Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Paul S. Brown wrote:

>
> 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 (not=
e
> > >plural).  Can you afford not to talk to them?
> >
> > Majority of people living in bad neighborhoods would be news. I=B4ll ta=
ke
> > 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 provi=
ding
> UUCP to two customers now who are still running Wildcat 4.x and Terminus =
on
> OS/2.

I think there might be another which still has 25 or so UUCP customers...

-Chris

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