Interest in UUCP?

From: R. D. Davis <rdd_at_smart.net>
Date: Thu Jun 14 01:02:13 2001

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Mike Ford wrote:
> >Can I meet these girls whom I can brag to about it? Most of the ones around
>
> Get a shopping basket at Fry's on Saturday morning, put at least enough
> stuff in it for two high end servers, then lurk in the memory area. Babe
> city. ;)

...and don't forget to mention do that you know all about UUCP and all
of the *cool* things that you can do with it, and that you know all
about (file) protection, chat scripts and late night cron jobs. Do
this at your own risk, and ONLY if you really want to turn them all on
and have them scratching their telephone numbers into your car's paint
before you can get away from the parking lot, where they're all
fighting over you and trying to keep you from getting away. :-) :-)
:-)

Ok, getting back on topic, I'm glad that someone's picked up on what I
mentioned a while back about getting back to using UUCP. :-) It
definitely still has some useability, and a UUCP infrastructure is
still a good thing to have around in the event of emergencies... and
would be better yet if packet radio is used with it as well. If one
uses the O'Reilly UUCP book, setting it up and administering UUCP is
not very difficult... and as someone mentioned, it's very portable and
can be used on any machine with a hard drive and modem.

How many list members are within a local telephone call of a UUCP feed?
Security is still someting to definitely keep in mind, however, as there
are tricks that someone using UUCP can play to get inside your system
and poke around.

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