From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: crossd@gmail.com (Dan Cross) Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 16:03:22 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] UUCP "bag" files In-Reply-To: <9a749ac4-6017-c907-dc6e-28eff66858a5@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> References: <04c44cba-fefe-b5c6-d683-618ed3ddb0cb@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> <9D7839FC-A3EB-4211-887D-BCE67229E1D6@orthanc.ca> <042d9aff-82df-d267-e585-3dfe57b06252@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> <3a393f09-d437-9951-98ee-24ddcdce120e@case.edu> <9a749ac4-6017-c907-dc6e-28eff66858a5@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> Message-ID: On Thu, May 10, 2018, 11:28 AM Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote: > On 05/10/2018 08:25 AM, Chet Ramey wrote: > > Yes. Bag files are a file format used to transfer news via uucp, > > popularized by dnews. I think they originated with satellite news > systems. > > This seems to be exactly the topic that I'm asking about. > > Unfortunately it doesn't hint at why the files are called "bag" files. > Totally hazarding a guess, but I'd imagine the etymology comes from a news bag, as in the thing slung over the should and hauled around by the neighborhood kid who delivers newspapers in the morning (that holds the to-be-delivered news). - Dan C. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: