[2105] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Trickle Down? How About Bubble Up?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Lloyd)
Mon Jan 27 01:23:08 1992
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 92 22:18:35 PST
From: brian@lloyd.com (Brian Lloyd)
To: jhaverty@us.oracle.com
Cc: daveh@csn.org, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: Jack Haverty's message of Sun, 26 Jan 92 20:23:48 PST <9201270423.AA13630@rivendell.us.oracle.com>
Reply-To: brian@lloyd.com
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 92 20:23:48 PST
From: Jack Haverty <jhaverty@us.oracle.com>
"...It is possible to do dial-up IP just as easy as it is to do uucp or FIDO
these days...."
This is true, except that you can't exchange mail or files between TWO dial-up
users without some effort to make sure they're both online. Within Oracle, we
use uucp fairly extensively to provide basic mail services to (very) remote
countries. Dial-up IP is the second step, used when at least most-of-workday
usage is the case. Kind of like going from cowpaths to country lanes I guess.
Jack
The problems of delivering mail to sites that are not always connected
are known and there have been hacks to help solve the problems. For
individual users there are protocols like POP and pcmail. We need
something like that for sites. This is an area where uucp frankly
excels. You can run uucp over TCP (the 't' protocol I believe) and it
is quite efficient.
Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN Lloyd & Associates
Principal and Network Architect 3420 Sudbury Road
brian@lloyd.com Cameron Park, CA 95682
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