Hi all, as part of the upcoming 50th anniversary of Unix in mid-2019, a bunch of people are working to rebuild the mid-1980s uucp/Usenet network using (real/simulated) period-accurate systems. To make things easier, we are simulating the dialup lines too.
Details of the (nearly) turnkey software to do this is at: https://github.com/DoctorWkt/4bsd-uucp A map of what nodes we have so far is at: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DoctorWkt/4bsd-uucp/4.3BSD/uucp.png If you are interested in participating, email me back. Cheers, Warren