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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news1.oakland.edu!jobone!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!newsfeed.pitt.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!news.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.iag.net!trauma.rn.com!trauma.rn.com!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 20 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) -- Larry Snyder larry@rn.com larry@iag.net Systems Administrator Internet Access Group, Inc Connecting Florida to the Internet 407-786-1145 / 800-380-4IAG * providing leased lines / dedicated / dialup / Web services / Consulting *