[rescue] interesting things to do with a modem

Cory Smelosky b4 at gewt.net
Fri May 23 11:36:24 CDT 2014


On Fri, 23 May 2014, Ian McLaughlin wrote:

> UUCP! Those were the days.  Your post just brought back a memory of debugging
> a UUCP session with a new peer.  The problem ended up being the remote machine
> couldn't handle our 8-character machine name - it wanted 7 characters or less.
> Seems like a lifetime ago (Oh wait, since then I've had kids and grandkids, so
> I guess that's 2 lifetimes ago)
>
> I seem to recall some discussion on the HECnet list about a UUCP variant
> (UUhecnet?) - not sure if it's still running.
>

I haven't heard much from Sampsa in awhile and I haven't gotten my 
UUHECnet node back up to it yet.

> Ian
>

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