[71429] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Mon Jun 14 18:37:35 2004
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 21:59:06 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>
In-reply-to: <20040614214513.GV38542@snowcrash.tpb.net>
To: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Niels Bakker 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?
> >>>> For how long did you stick with just UUCP after SMTP entered the scene?
>
> * christopher.morrow@mci.com (Christopher L. Morrow) [Mon 14 Jun 2004, 23:35 CEST]:
> > I think there might be another which still has 25 or so UUCP customers...
>
> And. Can they afford not to talk to any SMTP host? Or do they accept
> mail from those newfangled .COM sites not listed in any UUCP map?
good question, I assume that they MX to some mailbag place and just
forward everything back over uucp to the same place.
>
> Because that's at the heart of this argument, not whether some nostalgic
> folks still know what HDB stands for.
>
This teaches me to jump in midstream on a topic I've been deleting for 5
days :(
