] PE>> I don't think this is correct. Thousands of people use UUCP
 PE>> every day, just like fido. 

 BL> if your ISR uses a queer compress,

 PE> It is compressed using "unix compress"

  I rest my case... a queer compress if I ever saw one.

 PE> I think there's an "rbatch" or something at the beginning that
 PE> needs to be stripped off before giving it to compress. 

  Queer as a clockwork orange...

 PE>> You don't need any unix software to do UUCP.

 BL> Don't you? Every explanation I've read needs a little batch
 BL> file thingie or even a massive C file you have to send.

 PE> You need to set up a "chat script", which is nothing to do with
 PE> unix.

  A "chat script" written in C...?

 BL> If you do it this way, it'll die (IMO). Inertia alone will
 BL> leave people where they are, and to continue talking to them,
 BL> I'll have to go where they are. You need a crossover period
 BL> when both technologies run side-by-side, the way it's always
 BL> done.

 PE> If it comes to the crunch, they will die, and you'll only see
 PE> me if you collect comp.lang.c etc. 

  You're a lovely fella, Paul, but the idea of talking to you alone
makes we run screaming around the backyard. I suppose I could try
electroconvulsive therapy...

 BL> It would be better if there was just the one AVT using
 BL> different names on Fido and the Net.

 PE> This is fine, but I have no intention of doing it MYSELF so
 PE> offer no guarantees. 

  I fear we are coming to the end of a beautiful friendship...

 BL> Whatever... it still comes to fairly negligible charges for
 BL> mail when it's only $0.60 an hour.

 PE> $3/hour with my current account + usage.

  Yeah... that's why I've avoided the Internet so far. The PCUG offers
30 hours a month for $20 plus a one-off $40 registration and slip/ppp
(whatever that means) which is my $0.66 an hour, but it's better seen
as $240 a year, which is about three-times what I spend on the BBS
telephones at present. The idea of spending an hour a day surfing the
cat to get my money's worth makes me run screaming around the back
yard (even after the electoconvulsive therapy, which does tend to slow
me down a bit... and permanently, if they turn to volts up too high).

 PE> I told you some time ago I was going to the internet. If you
 PE> want to know where the Sigma guy is, he'll be on the internet,
 PE> and you can either join the internet via an ISP yourself, and
 PE> collect comp.lang.c, which is probably the only place I'll be,
 PE> or you can pick up a couple of local (possibly dead) newsgroups
 PE> if you poll me directly. 

  Yeah, well... I'll have to make other arrangements, by the sound of
it.

Regards,
Bob

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