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

["Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow () mci com>]

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 :(