Interest in UUCP?

--- John Foust &lt;jfoust(a)threedee.com&gt; wrote: I did this for months when I moved away from my old ISP and I needed to keep my old UUCP address live (toll calls from Antarctica to Ohio were *not* an option). It was on an Amiga; I hacked UUCP to open telnet.device instead of serial.device (not required on modern UUCP implementations) which simulated a modem, but opened a TCP port. You "dialed" it with "ATDTuucp.somewhere.com" instead of a phone number. It was a crufty hack, but it meant that you didn't have to change apps, whether a terminal program or something more sophisticated, like UUCP. HDB UUCP does allow you to fully describe the transport mechanism without resorting to OS-specific tricks. If the goal is to attach old machines to each other over the net, it might be handy for each participant to have an intermediate machine that _could_ reach out over the 'net and aggregate the local traffic over serial ports. A 386/486 box, for example, running not much more than UNIX and UUCP, could be the RS-232<->Ethernet UUCP home gateway, as could an Amiga, should you happen to have one with a network card lying around doing nothing (given which is more abundant...) It would only add one bang on each end of the path. At least script kiddies aren't running around with wads of exploits for UUCP daemons hanging on port 540. Security through antiquity? -ethan ===== Visit "The Seventh Continent" http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/