[SunRescue] RE: Bill's Big-Honkin bandwidth!

[Joshua D. Boyd]

What's wrong with it?  It looks like a regular old bang address to me.  I
still see those email address all the time when searching for info on old
computers through google.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Fri, 25 May 2001, Michael S. Schiller wrote:

> Back in the UUCP days I had a fairly strange email address:
> agrijag!mike at draco.nova.edu and what really makes me feel old is that there are
> many folks that today wouldn't have a clue what's wrong with it!
> 
> -Mike
> 
> "Hatle, Steven J." wrote:
> 
> > Hmm,
> >
> > Why does this sound familiar.  .  . Oh yeah - UUCP networks! <grin> In an
> > earlier life (and I'm only 37) I could write up the Systems, Devices and
> > Dialers files from memory for both SCO and AT&T SVR4. The company used to
> > use UUCP to move data between our central office and 70 remote retail
> > locations. When we put in our frame relay, everyone realized how much
> > infrastructure (scripts, file handling, cron jobs, etc) was in place around
> > UUCP- so to get over the hump, we enabled UUCP over the Ethernet/frame
> > instead of dial.
> >
> > It was kind of fun to watch- connection, handshake, file squirt, confirm and
> > shutdown all in the time it used to take to get the modem connection set up.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > Ken wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, we could devise some form of store and forward protocol, and maybe a
> > mechanisim for only forwarding messages when phone rates are low/during
> > various windows of opportunity, and maybe we could also implement some form
> > of directory, listing all the sites we share information with.
> > _______________________________________________
> > rescue maillist  -  rescue at sunhelp.org
> > http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue
> 
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