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Re: UUCP Networks

From Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>
Newsgroups comp.mail.uucp
Subject Re: UUCP Networks
Date 2024-02-03 18:48 -0600
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On 2/3/24 17:54, Julieta Shem wrote:
> Question---if I have access to the Internet, say TCP access, why 
> would I use UUCP and not NNTP directly?

That depends on your use case.

/Access/ /to/ the Internet is not the same thing as /being/ /on/ the 
Internet.  The latter means that others could have access to you while 
the former does not imply the same thing.

E.g. access to the internet behind Carrier Grade NAT but others have a 
dickens of a time getting to you.

So, you could initiate an outbound TCP connection to a central way point 
and utilize UUCP to pull queued email / news / files that someone sent 
to you.

Variations on this theme, one common one being IPv4 only host using UUCP 
over TCP to exchange files with a dual stack host which also uses UUCP 
over TCP to exchange files with an IPv6 only host.  Thus the IPv4 only 
and IPv6 only hosts can exchange files without worrying about the 
underlying transport incompatibility.

Another common theme is that the TCP connection is transient or dynamic 
such that it's annoying (at best) for someone to push things directly to 
you with TCP while it's trivial the intermediate to queue things for you 
to pull using UUCP at your convenience.



Grant. . . .

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UUCP Networks Kyonshi <gmkeros@gmail.com> - 2024-02-02 00:57 +0100
  Re: UUCP Networks lkh <lkh@sdf-eu.org> - 2024-02-02 06:27 +0000
  Re: UUCP Networks Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-02-02 11:10 -0300
  Re: UUCP Networks Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-02-02 22:48 -0600
    Re: UUCP Networks Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-02-03 20:54 -0300
      Re: UUCP Networks Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-02-03 18:48 -0600
      Re: UUCP Networks Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-02-04 10:21 +0100
        Re: UUCP Networks Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-02-04 11:46 -0300
          Re: UUCP Networks Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-02-04 16:46 +0100
            Re: UUCP Networks immibis <news@immibis.com> - 2024-03-13 04:01 +0100
              Re: UUCP Networks Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-03-13 08:28 +0100
            Re: UUCP Networks Andy Valencia <vandys@vsta.org> - 2024-03-21 07:31 -0700
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                Re: not really cable modem cards / CMTS (was: UUCP Networks) John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2024-03-23 01:24 +0000
                Re: not really cable modem cards / CMTS Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-03-22 23:46 -0500
              Re: UUCP Networks Andy Valencia <vandys@vsta.org> - 2024-03-24 07:04 -0700
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                Re: UUCP Networks Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-03-24 20:54 +0100
                Re: UUCP Networks immibis <news@immibis.com> - 2024-03-25 03:58 +0100
          Re: UUCP Networks Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-02-04 14:47 -0600
        Re: UUCP Networks Andy Valencia <vandys@vsta.org> - 2024-02-04 07:20 -0800
      Re: UUCP Networks "Andreas S. Kerber" <ask@eb6.srv.ke3.speedkom.net> - 2024-02-04 15:31 +0000
        Re: UUCP Networks Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-02-04 14:05 -0300
          Re: UUCP Networks "Andreas S. Kerber" <ask@eb6.srv.ke3.speedkom.net> - 2024-02-04 18:42 +0000
            Re: UUCP Networks John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2024-02-04 19:46 +0000
          Re: UUCP Networks Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-02-04 14:55 -0600
            Re: UUCP Networks John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> - 2024-02-05 03:19 +0000
  Re: UUCP Networks Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-02-03 12:43 +0100
  Re: UUCP Networks Martin Burmester <martin@burmester.org> - 2024-02-03 18:38 +0100
  Re: UUCP Networks John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> - 2024-02-09 04:56 +0000

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