Dang nabbit. Stupid advancing technology. (During an internet outtage I wonder if new orders for POTS phone service would be quashed in the interest of 'public safety'... :)
/kc --
UUCP works just fine over TCP/IP and works with Exim and Postfix (I have used both with UUCP over TCP/IP) with regular ARPA style addresses (@ addressing). Might be worthwhile to set up just to keep in practice. Once served as an MX host for a local family that moved overseas for a while and they had their own domain. They would connect to the Internet when they could, connect to me and pull the family's mail by UUCP over TCP/IP. That wasn't that long ago (less than 10 years ago). It is actually a pretty decent way to collect email for an entire domain when you have only intermittent connectivity.