Mastodawn

I guess instead of trying to find and built a permissively licensed version of #uucp (which in the age of #tarballs, #TFTP, #SFTP, #FTPS, and espechally genuine 1 TB #microSD cards seems as outdated as doing #Telex and 300 baud #telnet instead of using #eMail over #Freifunk) I'd be better off developing a reference implementation of the #"#AirgappedTransferProtocol" and including that in @OS1337's packages…

GitHub - KBtechnologies/ATP: Airgapped Transfer Protocol

Airgapped Transfer Protocol. Contribute to KBtechnologies/ATP development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)Feb 8

Just stumbled on this tonight looking around for information on UUCP. So, my loony idea at the moment, is to see if I can funnel UUCP over AX.25 packet radio, with the idea that I can send email over that.

My principle gripe right now is that most UUCP implementations (I've dealt with SCO UUCP and Taylor UUCP) require you to list up-front, all the nodes you might want to talk to… but aside from that limitation, the technology choice seems sound on paper.

Here, a group has managed to make UUCP talk over ARDOP.
https://www.rhizomatica.org/hermes/

ARDOP has its own problems, but that project looks interesting in what they've achieved. They're using conventional Icom HF radios to provide both text, recorded voice and photo transmission between communities in the Amazon (the rainforest not the megacorp).

#AmateurRadio #ARDOP #UUCP #PacketRadio

Hermes // rhizomatica

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éric 🚲 🇪🇺

Feb 3

@anttipeltola Sometimes it took more than a day. It depended on the direction of travel. Systems typically batched all the messages and only sent the batches once, just after cheap rates came into effect (midnight, say). That meant that emails from the west coast of Canada, say, to the east could miss the batch run due to time zones and had to wait another day in an intermediary system.

UUCP was anisotropic. 😉

#UUCP #Unix #RetroComputing #Usenet

Antti Peltola ⁂Feb 3

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Do you wonder how email and Usenet worked on the internet before always-on lines between the servers?

There was a Unix program called UUCP, which was used to syncronise data between the servers at night using telephone lines.

You wrote a Usenet message during the day and "posted" it. That message got synced to the federated Usenet network during the night, and the recipient of that Usenet message got it tomorrow morning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP

#UUCP #Unix #RetroComputing #Usenet

UUCP - Wikipedia

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tTh Jan 16

@R1Rail @genma @bortzmeyer : On ressort les vieux modems, et on relance le bon vieux « #Usenet over #UUCP » ?

Space Hobo Nov 16

Wow hey apparently #FreeBSD has 3D-accelerated #UUCP via their fancy new desktop-oriented installer?

They will be able to render bang-paths at impossible speed, but will it be 8-bit clean?

JohnMoyer Nov 14

Some ancient history

I first began using internet email in 1986 or 1987. I was listed in UUCP maps as a system administrator by June 1987 and by January 1988 the UUCP maps were distributed by USENET.

Here is a USENET post for all of the UUCP connected machines in Oklahoma: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.mail.maps/search?q=u.usa.ok%20john%20moyer%20after%3A1987-01-01%20before%3A1991-12-01

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP
"
User barbox!user would generally publish their UUCP email address in a form such as …!bigsite!foovax!barbox!user.
"
#Unix #UUCP #Usenet #email #history #internet