2008-03-03T05:50:31 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > We are studying the Wizzy and all the UUCP related issues.
Don't know what Wizzy is, but _very_ glad to hear uucp is being
looked at for sneakernet[1]. It's been 10 years since I used
uucp, and that was for a truly baroque firewall; 20 years since
I've wielded uucp in anger; but it's the first place I'd turn for
sneaker-netting posix-ish systems together. Usenet was born on uucp,
and a _bunch_ of us olde beezers enjoyed hours-latency email via
polling dialup uucp via modems before we got internet connectivity.
In its dying days I remember doing uucp between MS-DOS and unix over
dialup with free software, so there's a lot of possibly helpful
dried-out bits we can probably dredge out of the storage bins for
re-assembling today.
If this (uucp exploration) goes anywhere, do please Cc me (or
[EMAIL PROTECTED] of course).
-Bennett
[1] sneakernet == delivering network transport over offline media
carried between disconnected computers
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