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

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shatle at vue.com writes:

>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. 

I was browsing the web via uucp for a while.

I found a site that would let you request URLs by email. I modified
lynx to emit requests in that format. Sick, hunh?

-- david fischer -- dave at cca.org -- www.cca.org -- Cthulhu told me to. --