About the UUCP Project

The UUCP Project started in the early 1980s as a means to facilitate the exchange of electronic mail among sites using the UUCP store-and-forward transport mechanism. This UUCP software, originally part of the UNIX operating system became available on a variety of operating systems and platforms, from large mainframe to small home PC's. RFC 976was created to define the email format for these messages and made it possible to shorten and simplify addressing for UUCP-transported messages.

The UUCP Mapping Project was created to facilitate the creation a single worldwide database of systems connected to each other via UUCP and then using path building software (such as pathalias) to determine the optimal path from one system to another. Email addresses using this system incorporated the use of the path as part of the address. The Mapping Project concluded at the end of 2000.

About this Site

This site was originally created by Eric Ziegast when he was handling UUCP mail routing for UUNET. The site was transferred to the UUCP Project in late 1997 and is currently operated by Stan Barber. Eric's original plans for the site are still available.

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