For a couple of years, the Usenet link to/from Australia were magtape
exchanges on a routine NASA flight out of, if I remember right, NASA
Ames. It was piggybacked on the shipment of data to/from joint
NASA-Australia projects. I used to correspond occasionally with the guy
involved in doing that.
This would have been from the era when 9600baud and partial T1s via UUCP
were the bees knees.
You'd ask a question of someone in Australia, and you generally had an
answer within 3-4 days.
Which led, in part, to the old meme "never underestimate the bandwidth
of a shipment of magtapes".
Tho, I suppose you'd be hard pressed to do that today even with LTO-6.
Not that Usenet is that big today.
On 2020-12-19 19:36, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop wrote:
Dnia 19.12.2020 o godz. 15:52:21 Bob Proulx via mailop pisze:
Plus the SMTP protocol has never tried to be an end user visible
protocol. Which, if implemented over Avian Carriers, might be
unappealing to the consumer. Even if the cost is only bird seed. The
diagrams in RFC 2549 I find the most enjoyable.
A funny story: I actually remember from early days of Internet in my country
something people called "SMTP by train". It was no SMTP actually, but in
case when there was a prolonged link failure between mail servers in two
cities, these guys just made a copy of mail queue from one server on a tape,
took a train to the other city and copied the messages into the queue of the
second server there... Then of course they did the same procedure in the
other direction...
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