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


From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net>
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 23:45:13 +0200


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?

Because that's at the heart of this argument, not whether some nostalgic
folks still know what HDB stands for.


        -- Niels (who has met Honeyman)


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