BBS's

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Mon Nov 20 08:36:57 2000

At 09:10 AM 11/18/00 -0500, R. D. Davis wrote:
>An Internet outage and the UUCP system is
>broken. On the other hand, a UUCP network of systems connected via
>the telephone network could survive an Internet breakdown.

In an ideal world, every computer on the net would have
better fallback methods of connectivity. I have T-1 to
my ISP, but I wish I had a modem fall-back. I'm sure it's
simply a matter of rearranging my firewall. I think my
ISP would need a way to automatically reassign my DNS
records so I could continue to receive mail, for example,
but I'm sure that's asking too much.

>did you ever
>think about what the real purpose of those "sound barrier" walls is?)

Something to do with flouridation of water?

- John
Received on Mon Nov 20 2000 - 08:36:57 GMT