Ed Carp writes:
If the Feds pulled the plug on the backbone, I can see that there are a lot of people who would drag UUCP and pathalias out of the closet, and the UUCP Mapping Project would live again (hams have their own backbone are would be not as severely affected by the backbone going away).
Not that it wouldn't be hard - but it's doable.
I generally agree with this. But this would not be "the net as I know it" by any stretch of my imagination. Most of the people who get high priority(*) in my incoming mail wouldn't start doing UUCP. We could still do some version of the cpunks list, but at some point I would lose some enthusiasm for a "means to an end" that is just an end in itself. (*) or rather, they will when I get my .procmailrc debugged -Lewis "You're always disappointed, nothing seems to keep you high -- drive your bargains, push your papers, win your medals, fuck your strangers; don't it leave you on the empty side ?" (Joni Mitchell, 1972)