On 3/23/06, Reynald I. Ngo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, UUCP was standard then for scheduled dail-up/downstream emails. > We have been doing this with Fidonet via Frontdoor (circa '93-'94). I > can't recall though who was serving as the internation gateway for > Fidonet.
The Clark-based BBSs (I wasn't BBSing yet during that time), then later Twilight Zone BBS. The history of that is here: http://www.pinoytechblog.com/archives/philippine-cyberspace-is-turning-20-in-2006 To swing it back to open source - I was experimenting for one of the local networks - I think it was the RDnet (Rommel Feria, Daniel Chua, Natalie Joy Tan Yu) network which broke off from Freenet. I was running ifmail, a Fidonet-compatible mail program as a "point" (a non BBS which speaks the network protocols). Later on, at IPhil, I ran the Taylor UUCP suite to support some UUCP clients. These were a smorgasbord of Linux and proprietary stuff (like Lotus ccMail, pre-Notes days). One node was the local Fidonet (Philippine Cybernet Association, cyber.org.ph) at Majesty BBS, run by William Villanueva who is here in PLUG now :) For an overview of this addressing scheme, see this. It's no longer online, search for it in Google so you can see it cached: http://riverbbs.net/fido/history/fidointr.html _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
