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yeti wrote:

> Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> writes:
> 
> > yeti wrote:
> >
> > Maybe good old UUCP could be used for email, like in the past, and
> > Usenet too. Thus allowing people to run it from home, with the
> > help of free services like no-ip.com etc.?
> 
> UUCP isn't really P2P unless you configure each login for every peer.
> Classic UUCP relied a lot on other's servers as hops between sender
> and recipient.  There is a config option for unknown systems, but I
> cannot guess how to use it.  In contrast to anonymous UUCP one would
> need to know whom to reply to and that then again would need to set
> up that connection.  That still looks like config hell in a P2P case
> to me.

Ah, understand. So this is then no option, I guess. At least I do not
like to fiddle around to much, in order to get batches at evenings.
 
> Plain SMTP over some encrypted mesh would be far easier.  That mesh
> just has to be found.

I remember that when they had a catastrophe in Italy that they set-up
Mesh Networks to communicate, because local Internet was down IIRC.

I wonder how they communicated over the mesh ...
 
> > Do you know why the Tor devs are swithing to Rust, after all the
> > years?
> >
> > Do they think they will have lesser bugs in the code ...?!
> 
> They declare the C version being unmaintainable and praise Rust now.

Ah ja.

-- 
Regards
Stefan 

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  Re: smolnet (was: Small web protocols / alternative protocols) Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> - 2024-04-02 16:04 +0200
    Re: smolnet yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2024-04-02 15:48 +0042
      Re: smolnet Stefan Claas <pollux@tilde.club> - 2024-04-02 17:55 +0200
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