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Re: I have uucp installed

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Seth Hurst` wrote:
> So I got uucp installed on my arch system. I am connected to the
> Internet in a vm. Now what should I do next? What could I do with UUCP
> or not do with UUCP?
> 

I don't know the answer to your question, but I'll commiserate some 
about using retro-tech.

I've been 'cyber-connecting' since the mid-late 80s and I never used 
anything uucp, but I read the wp (wikipedia) article* which was 
Informative to me.

I think that if I were going to do anything retro, I would choose 
something retro that at least a few other people are 'retro-ing' with.

One of those is telnet BBS.

In the old 80s dialup days, I interacted on free local BBS and also a 
commercial service called GEnie.  That was in the days of Prodigy and 
CompuServe and GEnie was 'borrowing'/ using/ General Electric equipment 
in its off hours.  My hardware was an Atari ST (no hard drive) w/ B&W 
'hi res' monitor at 640x400, a dialup modem, and my software was the 
Atari TOS, a GUI, and the telecom program Flash and some scripts.

In any case, altho' the internet overwhelmed all of that old dialup 
tech, it is still alive in the form of telnet bbs instead of dialup.

I don't have any experience, but there are linux telnet clients such as 
SyncTerm, NetRunner, EtherTerm, and of course one can do it by command 
line telnet.

There is a telnet guide internet site  https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/


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

-- 
Mike Easter

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I have uucp installed Seth Hurst` <seth@johvan.vandor> - 2019-09-02 10:40 -0400
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