[45457] in Cypherpunks
Re: Pornographic stories
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lasser)
Fri Dec 15 14:46:24 1995
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 14:03:24 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lasser <jlasser@rwd.goucher.edu>
To: "Dr. Dimitri Vulis" <dlv@bwalk.dm.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, cme@tis.com
In-Reply-To: <Dgo5FD5w165w@bwalk.dm.com>
On Thu, 14 Dec 1995, Dr. Dimitri Vulis wrote:
> > In fact I've suggested to several people that we start
> > a dial-up uucp revival for this and related reasons. (If
> > the number of users/webpages and the bandwidth usage continues
> > to increase at the recent rates -- without a corresponding
> > improvement in the infrastructure we'll probably all want to
> > go back to uucp for mail and news anyway. Old fashioned dial-up
> > may be faster than T1 access in a few years and direct point-to-
> > point uucp over ISDN is probably faster already.
[...]
> > Anyone else want to participate in the great '90's
> > uucp revival? I'm in Santa Clara and could use
> > some feeds and some help with the setup.
>
> I'm all for it. My site is connected to the rest of the world via dial-up
> UUCP, I haven't touched the setup in 5 years, and am not planning to.
>
> It might be interesting to have a variation of dial-up UUCP where site 1
> passes encrypted stuff to site 2 and doesn't quite know what site 3 they're
> supposed to go on to. Sort of like the remailers with encryption.
This definitely seems like a good idea to me, especially with the
encrypted link. Is the encrypted link software written, or need we hack
a few perl scripts?
The mechanics seem simple enough....
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