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From: lyndon@orthanc.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Subject: [TUHS] UUCP Maps
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:21:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AD6DC6D-943C-4659-929C-E46EF14FA68D@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C1F271F-A4CC-4DCA-BD6E-7220ECA3AD82@orthanc.ca>


On Aug 25, 2014, at 2:56 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon at orthanc.ca> wrote:

> Then we should see about getting them to Warren for the archives.  They are a part of "internet" history that should never be lost. (Along with the code for pathalias.)

And perhaps a bit more importantly, does he still have the raw data that drove creating the maps?  It would be very interesting to see and compare those byte counts against today's internet. (I'm also very curious to see the relative flow between the hubs, and how data fanned out from them.)

I remember when the newsgroup traffic on Usenet hit 5 MB/day.  I think that was the third "death of the net" predicted event.  Then someone stepped up and explained (in a newsgroup) how to work your way through the entire mess, using very optimized applications of rn and kill files :-)  Where is Henry Spencer these days, anyway?!

--lyndon

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-25 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-25 20:55 Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-08-25 21:22 ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2014-08-25 21:56   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2014-08-25 22:21     ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2014-08-25 23:57       ` Dave Horsfall
2014-09-03 16:23       ` Aaron J. Grier
2014-09-04  5:23         ` arnold
2014-08-25 22:36     ` John Cowan
2014-08-26  0:43       ` Larry McVoy
2014-08-26  1:40         ` Dave Horsfall
2014-08-26  4:37           ` Larry McVoy
2014-08-26  2:24         ` A. P. Garcia
2014-08-26  2:17           ` Larry McVoy
2014-08-26  2:36             ` Christopher Vance
2014-08-26 18:34         ` scj
2014-08-26  2:19       ` [TUHS] pathalias (was: UUCP Maps) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2014-09-15  3:01 ` [TUHS] UUCP Maps Mary Ann Horton

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