Editing UUCP (section)

==Decline==
UUCP usage began to die out with the rise of [[Internet service provider]]s offering inexpensive [[Serial Line IP|SLIP]] and [[Point-to-Point Protocol|PPP]] services. The UUCP Mapping Project was formally shut down in late 2000.

The UUCP protocol has now mostly been replaced by the Internet TCP/IP based protocols [[Simple Mail Transfer Protocol|SMTP]] for mail and [[Network News Transfer Protocol|NNTP]] for Usenet news.

In July 2012, Dutch Internet provider [[XS4ALL]] closed down its UUCP service, claiming it was "probably one of the last providers in the world that still offered it"; it had only 13 users at that time (prior to its shut-down it had refused requests from new users for several years).<ref>{{cite web |first=Niels |last=Huijbregts |date=30 July 2012 |url=https://blog.xs4all.nl/2012/07/30/afscheid-van-uucp |title=XS4ALL Weblog: Afscheid van UUCP (Goodbye to UUCP) |publisher=[[XS4ALL]] |language=nl |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130731202722/https://blog.xs4all.nl/2012/07/30/afscheid-van-uucp/ |archive-date=31 July 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>