From: utzoo!decvax!duke!mcnc!rti!trt Newsgroups: net.followup Title: Re: "Network without news" Article-I.D.: rti.1011 Posted: Fri Feb 11 11:39:47 1983 Received: Sat Feb 12 05:41:06 1983 References: utah-cs.1356 Uucp is not the place to add 'a mail protocol'. Nor should uucp have 'a news protocol', a 'uusend protocol', and so on. The *mail* program should manage an end-to-end protocol. Uux's job is to deliver a file to a process, not to guarantee tha that the process executes correctly. I heard Eric Allman's talk on sendmail at UNICOM, and concluded that his mailer still depends on: The existence of an 'rmail' program at each site. Sufficient disk space to hold various spooling files. No machine crashes during the uux->rmail->uux handoff. Otherwise, mail gets dropped on the floor. Uucp should be enhanced to do many things: routing, faster transfers, fewer errors. But errors do happen, and any program which uses uucp must account for them or mail, news, or whatever will 'fall through the cracks.' Tom Truscott