Re: [TUHS] RetroNet…

[Cornelius Keck <ckeck@texoma.net>]

If one wanted to do this old-school, like with modems ... just 
wondering, who still has

- a wire-line phone,

- a modem,

- and hails from where?

Flat rate local toll and long distance is fairly prevalent in the US. 
International long distance is a different story. How does that look 
like elsewhere, who has a metered land-line?

Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
> On 08/29/2018 11:49 AM, Andreas Hein wrote:
>> Nice idea if UUCP is an option? Now dreaming about the 'internet' i
>> used where i started with UNIX (1985)
>
> We have been discussing UUCP options.  The short list is:
>
>  · UUCP over SSH
>  · UUCP over TCP  (is there an encrypted UUCP over TCP+SSL?)
>  · UUCP bag files transferred some other means.
>  · UUCP over some sort of emulated serial connection
>
> If you have other ideas, I'd love to hear them.
>
> I expect that we will be talking about an email gateway at some point if
> people are interested.
>
> We already have a Usenet feed that we will be making available via NNTP
> and UUCP.
>
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