🚀 go-pugleaf

>I know of no service provided by either Bitnet or UUCP that cannot be
>easily duplicated (and for the most part already is duplicated) on
>the Internet.

Then drop off (or out of) BITNET.  I certainly don't recommend
running NJE or UUCP over IP unless you or the users you serve detect
enough value from it to justify the effort!

>Why deal with the technical headaches of running one protocol over
>another?

I hope you're not asking 'why bother running IP?'...  ;-)

The group I'm in doesn't do UUCP for folks--there's been very little
demand for it, if any.  We do BITNET because of the massive
demand for it, and because it is much more economical than trying
to duplicate the functionality for our users in any other
way.  There are people I know who find great value in UUCP over
IP, though, and so they do it where they need to--it isn't really
all that hard.  And all of us are IP bigots.

       Cliff