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Re: Has anyone else used UUCP on the go?

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On 6/9/24 04:17, Molly A. McCollum wrote:
> Hey all, I wanted to know if anyone else has this use case that I used 
> UUCP for.

I have done this in the past.

> I'm curious as to if anyone else used UUCP for this purpose. I like the 
> delay-tolerant networking and the polling style, because it means that 
> not everyone has to have a well-known address or always-online machine, 
> only the gateway does.

What you call "delay tolerant networking" I refer to as "hop-by-hop" 
networking.  It is very nice to have, particularly when end-to-end 
networking can't be established, much less maintained.

> Anyways, I'm curious to see what uses anyone else has used for UUCP on 
> their own machines.

My biggest use case was -- what you called -- delay tolerant networking 
to send files between systems I used at home, work, and elsewhere.  It 
worked particularly well when I was on the road and didn't have IP 
connectivity (via port forwards from an unknown location) to systems 
inside my home / office network.  I could send files via the VPS which 
has a connection to my home and office and would relay files through 
just fine.

Once tuned, it worked better for large files that took a while to send. 
Queue them with uucp, they would go to the Internet gateway quickly 
across the LAN and then slowly go out the slow Internet connection while 
I was off doing other things having shut the source notebook down.



-- 
Grant. . . .

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Has anyone else used UUCP on the go? "Molly A. McCollum" <mam@sdf.org> - 2024-06-09 05:17 -0400
  Re: Has anyone else used UUCP on the go? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2024-06-09 12:10 -0500
    Re: Has anyone else used UUCP on the go? lkh <lkh@dwalin.uucp> - 2024-06-10 06:00 +0000

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