From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: lyndon@orthanc.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 18:04:31 -0800
Subject: [TUHS] Help request: uucp, mail on 4.2BSD
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> On Mar 9, 2017, at 4:31 PM, Steve Simon <steve at quintile.net> wrote:
> 
> Maybe its the same one, but I remeber a special UUCP protocol which had its
> MTU and timeouts carefully adjusted to get the best performance across X25.

'f' protocol.  It encoded everything into printable ASCII characters to avoid triggering any PAD escape sequence.