On Thu, 14 Dec 1995, Dr. Dimitri Vulis wrote:
In fact I've suggested to several people that we start a dial-up uucp revival for this and related reasons. (If the number of users/webpages and the bandwidth usage continues to increase at the recent rates -- without a corresponding improvement in the infrastructure we'll probably all want to go back to uucp for mail and news anyway. Old fashioned dial-up may be faster than T1 access in a few years and direct point-to- point uucp over ISDN is probably faster already. [...] Anyone else want to participate in the great '90's uucp revival? I'm in Santa Clara and could use some feeds and some help with the setup.
I'm all for it. My site is connected to the rest of the world via dial-up UUCP, I haven't touched the setup in 5 years, and am not planning to.
It might be interesting to have a variation of dial-up UUCP where site 1 passes encrypted stuff to site 2 and doesn't quite know what site 3 they're supposed to go on to. Sort of like the remailers with encryption.
This definitely seems like a good idea to me, especially with the encrypted link. Is the encrypted link software written, or need we hack a few perl scripts? The mechanics seem simple enough.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ JonJon Lasser <jlasser@rwd.goucher.edu> (410)494-3072 Visit my home page at http://www.goucher.edu/~jlasser/ You have a friend at the NSA: Big Brother is watching. Finger for PGP key.