From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net (Grant Taylor) Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 22:53:01 -0600 Subject: [TUHS] UUCP "bag" files In-Reply-To: <9D7839FC-A3EB-4211-887D-BCE67229E1D6@orthanc.ca> References: <04c44cba-fefe-b5c6-d683-618ed3ddb0cb@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> <9D7839FC-A3EB-4211-887D-BCE67229E1D6@orthanc.ca> Message-ID: <042d9aff-82df-d267-e585-3dfe57b06252@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> On 05/09/2018 09:51 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > What are they to begin with? Having run some "major" UUCP hubs in the > day, I have no clue what a UUCP "bag" is ... I see them in the context of Usenet via UUCP, so rnews. The best that I can tell is that they are simply the messages that need to be sent written into a single file that is then transferred via some mechanism, ftp being a common one. It looks like it might be the output of nntpsend or send-nntp. Or perhaps output of downstream / related UUCP commands. I often see it mentioned in close proximity of DNews. -- Grant. . . . unix || die -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 3982 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: