18 Jun
2001
18 Jun
'01
12:57 a.m.
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I just did a quick search and found a number of articles from:
pyramid!prls!philabs!trotter!bill
Anybody here who knows where "trotter" was?? Or the significance of the
name?? Or it's sister machine?? :-)
When I was a system admin for Lucent (1997-1999), I was amazed at how much
they depend on UUCP for internal file transfer.
Being the descendant of the creators of UUCP, it doesn't surprise me.
I did a lot of experimienting with UUCP long before the INTERNET as we
know it was even a dream in Vint Cerf's eye. I was even running UUCP
accross ham Packet modems at 1200 baud before the the W0RLI BBS stuff
got going. I never understood the desire to re-invent the wheel, especially
in such an inferior manner when the use of UUCP would have given them
Email and News right out of the box.
I can almost remember when I was
"...!ucbvax!gatech!weasel!ken".
I was "...!ihnp4!cbosgd!osu-eddie!giza!kumiss!erd", among other names. I just
did a web search and I can't find anything posted with my old bang path in it,
but I did find a couple references to
"erd(a)kumiss.cmhnet.org".org", our old
local Ham Radio/Computer club UUCP domain. I went grubbing through Deja.com
in the group comp.mail.maps and found this...
#N osu-mps, zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu
#S Sparcstation 2; SunOS 4.1.2
#O Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
#C David Alden
#E osu-mps!postmaster, osu-mps!alden
#T +1 614 292 4962
#P 231 W 18th Ave, Columbus, OH, USA 43210
#L 39 59 N / 83 03 W city
#R
#U cambria coral n8emr
#W alden(a)mps.ohio-state.edu (David J Alden); Mon Aug 24 09:04:31 EDT 1992
#
# This machine's sysname (for news) is actually
"zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu".
# It has ~35 nntp neighbors and is the major news gateway into Columbus, Ohio.
#
osu-mps= zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu
#
osu-mps cambria(DIRECT+HIGH), coral(DIRECT+HIGH),
kumiss(DIRECT), n8emr(DIRECT+HIGH)
And this (once I lost my direct OSU connection...
#N kumiss
#S Commodore-AMIGA 1000; Amiga-DOS V1.3 & Amiga-UUCP V1.15D
#O
#C Ethan Dicks
#E kumiss!erd, kumiss!postmaster
#T +1 614 *** ****
#P **** ** **** ********* ** ******
#L 40 01 00 N / 82 59 40 W
#R This site recieves mail and a partial News feed
#U
#W kumiss!erd (Ethan Dicks); Mon Nov 25 19:07:26 EST 1991
#
kumiss jcnpc(DIRECT)
Is anyone still maintaining UUCP maps?? Hmmm. I wonder what flows in
that newsgroup nowdays??
bill
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