In message <fff8c38cc39c430c0eee25db57a6c...@gandalf.orthanc.ca>, "Lyndon Neren berg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)" writes: > > Also, who you will really trust to run it ? > > The UUCP network chugged along quite nicely for many years without any > central authority. (Pathalias and the maps weren't an authority, just > a hint.)
And there would have been total confusion if there had been multiple uunet's and a few other well known nodes. UUCP had anchor points. Just different ones to the DNS. > --lyndon -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org