By necessity: any retelling of 80's era networking will have so much
source information available from UUCP mapping projects and Usenet
and mailing lists, than any other more closed sections of the network.
(BITNET and later NSFNet are also up there in terms of preserved
message/map volume but by no means as huge).
Where are the preserved BITNET maps to be found? I went looking for BITNET
topography related material a few months ago and found only a few examples.
One of the people I contacted recently came back to me with a stash of files
previously thought to be lost but I would be pleasantly surprised to know if
there is more material out there.
Regards,
Peter Coghlan.