Classic Comp UUCP network.

From: Brian Chase <vaxzilla_at_jarai.org>
Date: Mon Feb 11 03:11:30 2002

On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Brian Chase wrote:

> > For one, most of the people here remember what the 'Net' was like before
> > it was overrun with commercial traffic. Probably 95-99% of the people
> > using the internet and Usenet now have no clue that it used to be at
> > least somewhat more useful. Stupidity always existed for sure, but the
> > S/N ratio was at least a lot better than 0.5. Now it's probably more
> > like 0.001. Given the historical insight we possess, can we not create
> > something better, based on that insight, than what currently exists?

> But I find this comment to be overly dramatic. Saying that the internet
> "used to be at least somewhat more useful" is like saying it was easier to
> start a fire with two sticks. Give me a break. And the only "noise"
> there is on the internet is the noise that you decide to tune in to.
> The internet is pull, not push.

*cough* SPAM *cough*

For the most part it's pull, but there's a good bit of push as well.
Based on some recent exchanges, I'm fairly certain you're no fan of
pushed information like spam. Either e-mail or newsgroup based, spam is
not desirable. And then on the web it's not uncommon to have to deal
with pop-up ads. Push happens.

> The internet of today is bigger, faster,
> and better than the internet of 10 years ago, infinitely more useable,
> infinitely more useful, and I'm sorry but there's no going back.
>
> Creating a UUCP network for the hell of it is fine folly. Contemplating
> a replacement of the internet is foolish folly.

It's not so much a matter of turning back the progress, or even
considering replacing the internet. It's a matter of clearing a small
channel of sanity through it all, and we'd be utilizing the very same
infrastructure that already exists. I see no technical reason it can't
be done, it's more of a matter of there being enough people interested
in such a thing to make it sustainable.

Now... replacing the internet... hmm... MU HA HA HAHH!!!

-brian.
Received on Mon Feb 11 2002 - 03:11:30 GMT