[e2e] It's all my fault

Christian Huitema huitema at windows.microsoft.com
Mon May 14 15:20:56 PDT 2007


> > The old UUCP path rewriting logic was a solution to that tension.
> Usenet
> > relied on source routing, so they had to support it but they went to
> > extreme lengths to tame it. Usenet was relatively low bandwidth, so
> it
> > was OK to check the path before forwarding a file.
> 
> before we really rathole,   uucp != the usenet

Yes. Sorry about that. Should have written UUCP all the way. From our
neck of the wood in the early 80's, the two pretty much appeared as one,
but that certainly is not the case anymore.

-- Christian Huitema









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