On 08/30/2018 07:09 PM, Cornelius Keck wrote:
> I'm playing with the idea of hooking up a modem to my wireline phone. 
> I'd like to keep an eye on my late mother-in-law's place remotely. Best 
> I can get out there is DSL, and it ain't snappy, so one idea is to get 
> two Telebit Trailblazer modems, one here, one out there, dial into the 
> place, pull imagery via UUCP. Trailies spoof UUCP natively, and they 
> deal nicely with bad connectivity. One could take that one step further 
> and bring back a bit of Usenet.

That sounds like an interesting project.  I'd personally like to 
shoulder surf or read periodic updates, possibly a blog or twitter?  ;-)

I don't see how RetroNet can help with that connection.  It sounds like 
you've already got a good plan in place.

That being said, I do think that you could have a RetroNet … node 
(?term?) … at your house and then pass news feeds / email / etc over 
your Telebit UUCP extension.  —  I see no reason why that wouldn't work. 
  If you want to do such, cool.  How can I / we help?



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