From: Jon Lasser <jlasser@rwd.goucher.edu>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 1995 04:11:37 +0800
To: "Dr. Dimitri Vulis" <dlv@bwalk.dm.com>
Subject: Re: Pornographic stories
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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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