Editing UUCP (section)

==History==
UUCP was originally written at [[AT&T Bell Laboratories]] by [[Mike Lesk]].<ref name="reader">{{cite tech report |first1=M. D. |last1=McIlroy |author-link1=Doug McIlroy |year=1987 |url=http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/reader.pdf |title=A Research Unix reader: annotated excerpts from the Programmer's Manual, 1971–1986 |series=CSTR |number=139 |institution=Bell Labs |access-date=2015-02-01 |archive-date=2017-11-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171111151817/http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/reader.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> By 1978 it was in use on 82 UNIX machines inside the Bell system, primarily for software distribution.  It was released in 1979 as part of [[Version 7 Unix]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://a.papnet.eu/UNIX/v7/files/doc/36_uucpimp.pdf |title=Version 7 Unix manual: "UUCP Implementation Description" by D. A. Nowitz, and "A Dial-Up Network of UNIX Systems" by D. A. Nowitz and M. E. Lesk |access-date=2018-02-21 |archive-date=2018-02-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180221100921/http://a.papnet.eu/UNIX/v7/files/doc/36_uucpimp.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

The first UUCP emails from the U.S. arrived in the United Kingdom in 1979 and email between the UK, the Netherlands and Denmark started in 1980, becoming a regular service via [[EUnet]] in 1982.<ref name=":22">{{Cite web |last=Houlder |first=Peter |date=19 January 2007 |title=Starting the Commercial Internet in the UK |url=https://www.uknof.org.uk/uknof6/Houlder-History.pdf |access-date=2020-02-12 |website=6th UK Network Operators' Forum}}</ref><ref name=":122">{{Cite web |last=Reid |first=Jim |date=3 April 2007 |title=Networking in UK Academia ~25 Years Ago |url=https://www.uknof.org.uk/uknof7/Reid-History.pdf |access-date=2020-02-12 |website=7th UK Network Operators' Forum}}</ref>

The original UUCP was [[Rewrite (programming)|rewritten]] by AT&T researchers Peter Honeyman, David A. Nowitz, and Brian E. Redman around 1983.  The rewrite is referred to as ''HDB'' or ''HoneyDanBer'' uucp, which was later enhanced, bug fixed, and repackaged as ''BNU UUCP'' ("Basic Network Utilities").<ref>{{Cite web |title= The History of ihnp4 and The Growth of the Email Network |author= Gary J. Murakami |date= September 24, 1988 |url= http://www.nobell.org/~gjm/about/ihnp4.html |access-date= June 7, 2013 |archive-date= September 11, 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130911062530/http://www.nobell.org/~gjm/about/ihnp4.html |url-status= live }}</ref> 

Each of these versions was distributed as proprietary software, which inspired [[Ian Lance Taylor]] to write a new [[free software]] version from scratch in 1991.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.uucp/browse_thread/thread/a59ccd63afcade57
|title=Beta release of new UUCP package available
|access-date= 2009-01-19
|author=Ian Lance Taylor
|date=September 1991
}}</ref>
''Taylor UUCP'' was released under the [[GNU General Public License]].  Taylor UUCP addressed security holes which allowed some of the original [[computer worm|network worm]]s to remotely execute unexpected shell commands. Taylor UUCP also incorporated features of all previous versions of UUCP, allowing it to communicate with any other version and even use similar config file formats from other versions.

UUCP was also implemented for non-[[UNIX]] operating systems, most-notably [[DOS]] systems. Packages such as UUSLAVE/GNUUCP ([[John Gilmore (activist)|John Gilmore]], Garry Paxinos, Tim Pozar), UUPC/extended (Drew Derbyshire of Kendra Electronic Wonderworks) and FSUUCP (Christopher Ambler of IODesign), brought early [[Internet]] connectivity to personal computers, expanding the network beyond the interconnected university systems. FSUUCP formed the basis for many [[bulletin board system]] (BBS) packages such as Galacticomm's [[Major BBS]] and [[Mustang Software]]'s [[Wildcat! BBS]] to connect to the UUCP network and exchange email and [[Usenet]] traffic.  As an example, UFGATE (John Galvin, Garry Paxinos, Tim Pozar) was a package that provided a gateway between networks running [[Fidonet]] and UUCP protocols.

FSUUCP was the only other implementation of Taylor's enhanced 'i' protocol, a significant improvement over the standard 'g' protocol used by most UUCP implementations.{{Citation needed |date= June 2013}}