From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 12:59:40 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Help request: uucp, mail on 4.2BSD In-Reply-To: References: <20170307070941.GA2012@minnie.tuhs.org> <58c07fb8.F7Cd/seulkX9W1t/%schily@schily.net> Message-ID: On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, Arthur Krewat wrote: > This is one of the reasons Telebit did the whole UUCP "g" acceleration > in the Trailblazer/Worldblazer modems. Yep, and they ran like the clappers; I can still remember its "moose call" when it was syncing with the other end. Ah, well I remember the time back at Strangled Tangled and Confused, when we were being chipped by the accountoids for our long-distance modem bills; when I explained to the suits that they were actually our head office (bug reports and resolution etc), a couple of Trailblazers suddenly appeared in our respective machine rooms. $BABBAGE, but how I've hated middle managers since then... -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."