UUCP Configuration

Today, emails (and netnews) ale ubiquitously transported over tcp connections on the internet. Before that there was a time, when hosts were calling each other regularly using modems over the public telephone network to exchange emails. UUCP was one common way for these exchanges, standing for �Unix to Unix Copy� because that's what it was: A method to copy files to (and execute programs on) other hosts. You had to configure other systems, how they were to be reached (telephone number, which modem to use…) and when to call them. After that, you could copy a file to host charlie, via host bob and alice with “uucp file.txt alice!bob!carlie! (if I remember right).

See also: http://www.airs.com/ian/uucp.html(approve sites)