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LONE WOLFE SOFTWARE ANNOUNCES

wcUUCP for Wildcat! Interactive Net Server
Version 1.0-Alpha

UUCP Mail and News over TCP/IP for Wildcat!

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - November 2026

Lone Wolfe Software today announced the first public alpha of wcUUCP
for Wildcat! Interactive Net Server, a new UUCP gateway that brings
UUCP mail and Usenet news back to Wildcat! systems - this time over
the Internet instead of over modems.

wcUUCP picks up where the classic Wildcat! UUCP gateway left off. It
talks to other UUCP sites over TCP/IP using the same protocols and the
same configuration file format as Taylor UUCP, the UUCP package found
on Linux, BSD and most Unix systems, and it plugs into Wildcat!
through wcMail's own configuration and the wcSMTP and wcNNTP servers.

HIGHLIGHTS

* UUCP over TCP/IP on port 540, calling out and answering calls.
* The standard UUCP protocols 'g', 'e' and 't', tested against
Taylor UUCP 1.07 in both directions.
* Taylor UUCP-style configuration: config, sys, port and passwd
files, time strings, chat scripts, called-login, permissions.
* Reads Wildcat!'s wcMail configuration to find the mail domain,
host name and the wcSMTP and wcNNTP ports automatically.
* Mail both ways: Wildcat! users reach UUCP addresses through a
built-in SMTP gateway; UUCP mail is delivered into Wildcat!
through wcSMTP, with RFC 976 address rewriting, bang-path
forwarding and automatic bounces.
* News both ways: rnews batches (plain, compress, gzip) are fed to
wcNNTP; new local articles are batched and sent to each neighbour
by newsgroup pattern, with loop protection.
* A Windows GUI to configure and manage everything: system status,
"call now", job queue, live colour-coded log viewer, and service
control.
* Very detailed logging: Taylor-style Log, Stats and Debug files,
with 16 selectable debug categories down to every protocol packet
and every byte on the wire.
* Runs as a Windows service on Windows Server 2008 R2 and every
later Windows release, 32- or 64-bit, on .NET Framework 4.0.
* Security first: received jobs only ever run wcUUCP's built-in
rmail, rnews and rsmtp - nothing is passed to a shell.

ABOUT THIS ALPHA

Version 1.0-Alpha is feature complete for UUCP-over-TCP mail and news
and has been tested against Taylor UUCP and simulated Wildcat!
servers. It has not yet been run against a live Wildcat! Interactive
Net Server. Sysops willing to run it alongside their Wildcat! systems
are invited to try it and report results, especially the output of
"wcuucpd wcmail", so detection of wcMail settings can be fine tuned
before the beta.

REQUIREMENTS

Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7, or any later Windows
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 or later
Wildcat! Interactive Net Server with wcSMTP and wcNNTP

AVAILABILITY

wcUUCP 1.0-Alpha is available now from the Lone Wolfe Software
support BBS:

Support BBS - <http://brinkbbs.org>

ABOUT LONE WOLFE SOFTWARE

Lone Wolfe Software develops BBS, FidoNet and Internet tools for
sysops who keep classic systems running.

CONTACT

Robert Wolfe <rwolfe@twc.com>
Lone Wolfe Software
Support BBS - <http://brinkbbs.org>

(C)opyright 2026 by Robert Wolfe & Lone Wolfe Software.
This Implementation (C)opyright 2026 Robert Wolfe, Lone Wolfe Software
Programming by Robert Wolfe <rwolfe@twc.com>
Wildcat! is a product of Santronics Software. Taylor UUCP is by Ian
Lance Taylor. All other trademarks belong to their owners.

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