Classic Comp UUCP network.

From: Brian Chase <vaxzilla_at_jarai.org>
Date: Sat Feb 9 15:37:09 2002

On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Lawrence LeMay wrote:

> UUCP is primarily a 'local' setup, ie, between computers within your
> non-long-distance telephone network. Sure, there were exceptions, but
> it all comes down to who is going to pay the long distance telephone
> charges.
>
> [...]

The points you make are valid, but what I think at least some of us are
proposing is that no long-distance be used, unless somebody really wants
to do that. Given the pervasiveness of ISP services, most people would
be able to connect to the proposed network using UUCP over a TCP/IP
connection to a local ISP number. Access to the internet is no longer
the great obstacle it was in the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.

Given that the long hauls are sorted out over over the internet, the
only hurdle would be for those people unable or unwilling to run TCP/IP
on their systems. In those cases, it's matter of finding at least one
other person local to you who's willing to dial-up peer with you, who
runs or has easy access to a TCP/IP gateway to the backbone.

The resulting *practical* services offered by this UUCP over TCP/IP
style network are redundant on top of the services normally offered on
TCP/IP. The idea would be that it's for curious hobbyists. It's a
little impractical in its aims, but there's certainly no technical or
cost barrier to prevent it from happening rather easily. All it
requires is a few people (even one person) to build a core and to make
it easy for people to peer with the core. From there, the rest will
naturally grow, given that an interest exists.

-brian.
Received on Sat Feb 09 2002 - 15:37:09 GMT