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From: larry@rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.1.5, pppd and more ...
Date: 26 Jul 1995 11:25:06 -0400
Organization: TraumaNet
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Message-ID: <3v5moi$53a@trauma.rn.com>
References: <DCBA3I.wK@news.central.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: trauma.rn.com

In article <DCBA3I.wK@news.central.com>,  <tedmtoybox@agora.rdrop.com> wrote:
>In  <3uvmmu$b8j@lynet.Lynet.De>  uweg@lynet.de (Uwe Gruentjes) writes:
>| Hello everybody,
>|  
>If your PPP link is slow (like a 28.8K) and your provider is willing to
>feed you news via UUCP your out of your mind to attempt to use your
>PPP link to transmit news.  The smartest thing to do in this situation

not really - you can send and receive news via UUCP over TCP --
sending compressed (gzipped -9) batches via UUCP over TCP works
out rather well (but leaves the line unusable for just about
anything else except for SMTP traffic)



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