Re: Introducing the UUCP/Usenet Project

2017-03-25 Thread Mark J. Blair via cctalk
For a year or two in college, I was running UUCP on my Amiga 1000. I had it dialing into the SPARCstation IPC on the computer support desk at UCI. Gack, I still remember the pain of hacking the sendmail.cf without the benefit of the later m4 macros, in order to get the mail forwarding working.

Re: Introducing the UUCP/Usenet Project

2017-03-21 Thread goetz--- via cctalk
Am 21.03.2017 um 01:33 schrieb Warren Toomey via cctech : > A map of what nodes we have so far is at: > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DoctorWkt/4bsd-uucp/4.3BSD/uucp.png Please add (rough) locations, where the boxes are, and what OS/stack these are using, if anyhow possible! Would love to se

RE: Introducing the UUCP/Usenet Project

2017-03-21 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of Seth Morabito via cctalk [cctalk@classiccmp.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 5:44 PM To: Warren Toomey via cctalk Subject: Re: Introducing the UUCP/Usenet Project * On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:33

Re: Introducing the UUCP/Usenet Project

2017-03-21 Thread Ian S. King via cctalk
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 03/21/2017 02:44 PM, Seth Morabito via cctalk wrote: > > > I would very much like to get one of my 3B2s up and running on this > > new UUCP network. I still have a mostly fallow land line that I can > > us

Re: Introducing the UUCP/Usenet Project

2017-03-21 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 03/21/2017 02:44 PM, Seth Morabito via cctalk wrote: > I would very much like to get one of my 3B2s up and running on this > new UUCP network. I still have a mostly fallow land line that I can > use. When I have some time in the next week or two, I'll try to get > things ready under SVR3 UNIX.

Re: Introducing the UUCP/Usenet Project

2017-03-21 Thread Seth Morabito via cctalk
* On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:33:36AM +1000, Warren Toomey via cctalk wrote: > 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 > easie

Re: Introducing the UUCP/Usenet Project

2017-03-21 Thread Ray Arachelian via cctalk
On 03/20/2017 08:33 PM, Warren Toomey via cctalk wrote: > 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 t

Re: Introducing the UUCP/Usenet Project

2017-03-21 Thread Warren Toomey via cctalk
Camiel wrote: > What would the requirements for the system be? How often would it need to > be online? I added an answer here: https://github.com/DoctorWkt/4bsd-uucp#joining-the-growing-uucp-network For central sites (like decvax) that had a lot of connectivity, you will be expected to run them c

Re: Introducing the UUCP/Usenet Project

2017-03-21 Thread Camiel Vanderhoeven via cctalk
Hi Warren, What would the requirements for the system be? How often would it need to be online? I¹m working on getting an OS for it, but if I succeed I might be able to get my Convex C1 up and running in a few weeks, and wouldn¹t it be nice to have that participate? Camiel On 3/21/17, 1:33 AM,

Introducing the UUCP/Usenet Project

2017-03-20 Thread Warren Toomey via cctalk
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 t