On 2020-12-20 14:00, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
The original quote, IIRC, was talking about Henry Spencer at UT Zoology, who
got Usenet that way for a while.
More likely it was in relation to Australia's Usenet "feed" which was a daily
FedEx air shipment of 9-track tapes. At the time, FedEx Air was cheaper than
the very expensive submarine cable link.
There is some confusion here. Lyndon is correct as for Australia. Jay
has it backwards.
The Australia link was what I was referring to. Which was connected
with NASA, and I believe Eugene Miya was involved.
That's what the quote was referring to, and may have even been from Tom
- he is that sort. However:
Henry (who I was in CompSci with at UofT and knew him quite well)
received Usenet via dialup modem at node utzoo, and spread it outwards
from there. The sites I ran got it from utzoo. After a couple of
years, I returned the favour and my site (mnetor - Computer X
(subsidiary of Motorola) became the long haul link into Canada (via X.25
UUCP d protocol from Rick Adam's side at seismo), and I fed utzoo, BNR,
LSUC, York et. al.
[I then ended up in BNR, which for a while was one of the largest Usenet
transit sites in the world.]
Tom's connection with magtapes vis-a-vis Usenet that Jay is referring to
is the *archive* of the Usenet traffic that Henry kept on tape, and gave
to Dejanews.
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