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Re: Has anyone else used UUCP on the go?

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Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> wrote:
> 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.
> 

yep, and this is exactly the use case I'm setting up on my laptop 
right now. 

>> 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.

you could even establish a whole subdomain behind the uucp link
with FQDN's for each machine as far as email is concerned.

UUCP clearly still has it's advantages.

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

we're even setting up a small netnews exchange right now :D

> 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.

That's interesting. I don't have a uucp capable machine in the office, 
but it's intriguing.

Cheers, 

lkh

-- 
Laurens Kils-Hütten * lkh@sdf-eu.org * @lkh@social.sdfeu.org

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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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