Interest in UUCP?

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Mike Ford wrote: ...and don't forget to mention do that you know all about UUCP and all of the *cool* things that you can do with it, and that you know all about (file) protection, chat scripts and late night cron jobs. Do this at your own risk, and ONLY if you really want to turn them all on and have them scratching their telephone numbers into your car's paint before you can get away from the parking lot, where they're all fighting over you and trying to keep you from getting away. :-) :-) :-) Ok, getting back on topic, I'm glad that someone's picked up on what I mentioned a while back about getting back to using UUCP. :-) It definitely still has some useability, and a UUCP infrastructure is still a good thing to have around in the event of emergencies... and would be better yet if packet radio is used with it as well. If one uses the O'Reilly UUCP book, setting it up and administering UUCP is not very difficult... and as someone mentioned, it's very portable and can be used on any machine with a hard drive and modem. How many list members are within a local telephone call of a UUCP feed? Security is still someting to definitely keep in mind, however, as there are tricks that someone using UUCP can play to get inside your system and poke around. -- Copyright (C) 2001 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)perqlogic.com 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.perqlogic.com beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.