On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Patrick R. Wade wrote:

> [0] The UUCP function that is sorely missing is the ability to push
> an arbitrary file to an arbitrary remote user.  

couldn't this be done with ftp and some combination of directory and
notification services?

For instance having a way to notify the recipients system that there was a
new version of file foo and the recipients system would then wait for a
time when connecting to the repository was convenient and simple.

You could even elaborate on this and make the repository distributed,
after all UUCP is just a set of systems passing compressed archives around
is it not?


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