Fidonet??!!! You have put tears in my eyes... I was 20 years old, It
was 20 years ago... there was no internet (or UUCP
nodes) in Peru... we were a bunch (only 20 people, at most) that were
interested to connect to something that was
outside the country... so we call (dial up)... international
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> the good news is that you can simulate things by useing UDP broadcast
>> packets as your transport layer.
>
> Well yes, I did usenet/proxy object stuff over UDP.
>
>> don't get fixated on the idea of usin
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> the good news is that you can simulate things by useing UDP broadcast
> packets as your transport layer.
Well yes, I did usenet/proxy object stuff over UDP.
> don't get fixated on the idea of using satellites, as a means for
> publishing updates
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> I've used UUCP over TCP/IP as a mail path for systems that only had
>> intermittent network connectivity and it worked very well. if the system
>> can detect when it does have connectivity and connect up
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I've used UUCP over TCP/IP as a mail path for systems that only had
> intermittent network connectivity and it worked very well. if the system
> can detect when it does have connectivity and connect up to a server every
> few min while it retai
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, John Gilmore wrote:
>> uucp ... the first place I'd turn for
>> sneaker-netting posix-ish systems together.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP
>
> Yep. UUCP is great if there's a phone line that can dial overnight
> cheaply, but no Internet. I released the first free impl
> uucp ... the first place I'd turn for
> sneaker-netting posix-ish systems together.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP
Yep. UUCP is great if there's a phone line that can dial overnight
cheaply, but no Internet. I released the first free implementation of
uucp (gnuucp), which was later succe
008/3/4 Bennett Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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
http://www.wizzy.o
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 wiel
