richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) (01/27/88)
Some things really do make your jaw drop. Where do we start ? >In article <000@amy.UUCP> amy!hansel@oberon.usc.edu writes: Ok, how bout this. Article <000@amy.UUCP> writes. Ok, somebody went and got 'amy' as a site name. Aha, and this is article <000>. Hope that software there bumps up that article number Steve. >In the past few weeks I have seen several inquiries about uucp for the Amiga. Well, no surprise there eh ? You get a floppy based amiga working on the net and people get curious. >Some friends and I are currently working on a Network Communications Package >for the Amiga. We plan for this package to include the following: [bunch of stuff deleted] >When we have this entire package complete, it will be posted. In time for my birthday ? (May) > Steve Hansel Steeve. Old buddy old pal. I remember you. I can see it now. Harv.CTS.COM. ewhac.UUCP... Before, we were all rich rosen. Now we are all sites. Any good sitenames anybody ? > rutgers!marque!gryphon!amy!hansel Decent path, I must say. -- "...and before too long I might, see those flashing red lights" richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {ihnp4!scgvaxd!cadovax, philabs!cadovax, codas!ddsw1} gryphon!richard
waynet@mongo.uucp (Wayne Thompson) (01/28/88)
How about MyAMI for a site name?
ram@elmgate.UUCP (Randy Martens) (01/28/88)
In article <2283@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: >Any good sitenames anybody ? > "...and before too long I might, see those flashing red lights" > richard@gryphon.CTS.COM > {ihnp4!scgvaxd!cadovax, philabs!cadovax, codas!ddsw1} gryphon!richard Actually gryphon is not a bad one, but I rather like mine. You see, I usually read mail, postnews etc through my local gateway, which is elmagte. But that's not my site name. All the stuff gets forwarded to my local site. So all this stuff gets to go to ... ... Hades . You can even send the mail there directly if you want, but if you leave off the last hop, it will still get there . so the full path is (wherever)!rochester!kodak!elmgate!hades!ram BTW, I also like "mind" and "splut". Those are my othere two favorite names. -- * Randy Martens @ rochester!kodak!elmgate!ram * "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike." * disclaimer : The preceeding represents only my random babbling, * and certainly reflects no one else's opinions. Fnord.
baer@percival.UUCP (Ken Baer) (01/29/88)
In article <2283@gryphon.CTS.COM> richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: > >>Some friends and I are currently working on a Network Communications Package >>for the Amiga. We plan for this package to include the following: >[bunch of stuff deleted] >I can see it now. Harv.CTS.COM. ewhac.UUCP... Actually, all this UUCP stuff for the Amiga really catches my interest. I brought up NetNews at Oberlin College last year, and I admit I had a lot of fun running a site. If anyone is planning to port rn to the Amiga, GOOD LUCK! That program is HUGE!! It's interesting to note, however, how long vnews has been around for the Amiga, it's on an older Fish disk. As for running news on a floppy system, don't waste your time! You need a hard disk (actually, I need a hard disk too). If I get one, maybe you'll see some articles from baer@redguru.UUCP. :-) -- -Ken Baer. // Amiga: The PC that CAN walk and chew gum at the same time. \X/ USENET - ...tektronix!reed!percival!baer OR baer@percival.UUCP "The Few, The Proud, The Criminally Insane - Oberlin Computer Science" - me.
pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) (01/29/88)
UUPC or an original Amiga uucp seems like a great thing to have. But all this is useless if one can't get a news feed. I don't think too many corporations or benevolent enough to feed a lowly single-person PC without getting something for their trouble. Are there? I had an idea a while ago about how to run a *free* mail network. Every phone exchange has a certain set of exchanges it can call for free. But some of those exchanges can call *different* exchanges. So it should be possible to cover great distances with only local calls, if you have enough people participating. In areas with densely packed Amiga users mightn't it be possible to set up such a network? Then you'd only need one gateway to the rest of the networld, and you'd have a better argument to make to Joe Corporate that he'd be doing a great thing for the wider computing community. I love the idea of my Amiga collecting all sorts of interesting info while I'm at work, or sleeping. Modems are pretty cheap these days. I'd certainly buy one if I could get usenet access for free (no long distance charges). I'll bet lots of people would. Or is this what everyone's been assuming all along, and I'm just asleep at the switch? -- -Peter Schachte pds@quintus.uucp ...!sun!quintus!pds
spencer@eris (Randal m. Spencer [RmS]) (01/30/88)
Recently on *comp.sys.amiga* pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) wrote: ...I had an idea a while ago about how to run a *free* mail network. ...Every phone exchange has a certain set of exchanges it can call for ...free. But some of those exchanges can call *different* exchanges. So ...it should be possible to cover great distances with only local calls, ...if you have enough people participating. In areas with densely ...packed Amiga users mightn't it be possible to set up such a network? ...Then you'd only need one gateway to the rest of the networld, and you'd ...have a better argument to make to Joe Corporate that he'd be doing a ...great thing for the wider computing community. ... ...Or is this what everyone's been assuming all along, and I'm just asleep ...at the switch? ...-Peter Schachte Heh, heh, heh... Actually that is exactly what I am interested in setting up. When I left collage (or is it "college") I immediately missed Usenet. I looked desparately for a feed. Then I found the Well (as in ewhac@well or perry@well) and as long as I was on there the thought of making my own machine that had these capabilities was important to me. So, I am following these discussions closely. I expect to have a BBS available soon that will allow callers to read news (manually downloaded), and as UUPC makes news available to me, then the above, only automatically. Then eventually when a UUPC comes along that is Peer to Peer (?) others will be able to call my machine and get the most recent mail and such... That is the future for me! -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Randy Spencer 3461 N. Edison St. Arlington VA 22207 (703)241-2140 spencer@mica.berkeley.edu I N F I N I T Y BBS: (415)222-9416 ..ucbvax!mica!spencer s o f t w a r e AAA-WH1M -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=See-=-=-you=-=-=-=in-=-=-=-D.C.-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) (02/01/88)
In article <595@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>, pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) says: > >I had an idea a while ago about how to run a *free* mail network. >Every phone exchange has a certain set of exchanges it can call for >free. But some of those exchanges can call *different* exchanges. So >it should be possible to cover great distances with only local calls, >if you have enough people participating. In areas with densely >packed Amiga users mightn't it be possible to set up such a network? I love it! In fact, I loved it back in about 1978 when this idea consumed about three consecutive issues of BYTE (or some similar mag). At the time, we were all sure that the system would emerge organically within a year or so. FIDO net somes close, though it still ain't all there. I am probably a good example of a machine that could turn long distance into local, since I am half way between Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo (hey! lucky me!), and can call parts of three states cheap.
trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey ) (02/01/88)
In article <6787@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> spencer@eris.berkeley.edu (Randal m. Spencer [RmS]) writes: >Recently on *comp.sys.amiga* pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) wrote: >...if you have enough people participating. In areas with densely >...packed Amiga users mightn't it be possible to set up such a network? >...Then you'd only need one gateway to the rest of the networld, and you'd >...have a better argument to make to Joe Corporate that he'd be doing a >...great thing for the wider computing community. > >Heh, heh, heh... > >Actually that is exactly what I am interested in setting up. You might want to check into the Amiga Citadel BBS development efforts. I am currently acting as a gateway for the ST version of Citadel (STadel). The author of STadel has had full UUCP mail access capability set up for several months now, and just recently we started room sharing of specific USENET sections (comp.sys.atari.st for now). With Citadels' room/floor hierarchy this maps pretty nicely into USENET. Also, the Citadels' capability to network with other Citadels (they have implemented addresses in the form of: user_name@site) makes the gateway very powerful. That would mean that one gateway to USENET could serve the needs of both Amiga and ST owners (oh yes, also the IBM PC and CP/M Citadel BBS's out there). If the Amiga version doesn't have this capability yet, ask the authors why, since the source code for STadel is PD... -Todd Burkey trb@stag.UUCP P.S. you can contact the author of the STadel package at: orc@pell.UUCP or ...ihnp4!meccts!stag!pell!orc
ejablow@dasys1.UUCP (Eric Robert Jablow) (02/02/88)
I've been setting up a site for my math department that we call the
scandal set: fawn, jessica, and donna (three Sun computers). We expect
to name our next machine ollie, or perhaps gary, or whatever the next
scandal is. So, I'd be ejablow@fawn.jessica.sunysb.edu. YAY!
--
Eric Jablow {allegra,philabs,cmcl2}!phri\
Big Electric Cat Public Unix {bellcore,cmcl2}!cucard!dasys1!ejablow
New York, NY, USA Soon to be eric@fawn.sb.edu.
Copyright 1988 First Category Pressrandy@bcsaic.UUCP (Randy Groves) (02/02/88)
In article <595@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes: > >I had an idea a while ago about how to run a *free* mail network. >Every phone exchange has a certain set of exchanges it can call for >free. But some of those exchanges can call *different* exchanges. So Sounds like FIDOnet to me ... -- -randy groves - Boeing Advanced Technology Center UUCP: ..!uw-beaver!uw-june!bcsaic!randy USNail: Boeing Computer Services CSNET: randy@boeing.com PO Box 24346 M/S 7L-68 VOICE: (206)865-3424 Seattle, WA 98124
greg@mind.UUCP (Greg Nowak) (02/02/88)
In article <2805@dasys1.UUCP> ejablow@dasys1.UUCP (Eric Robert Jablow) writes: }I've been setting up a site for my math department that we call the }scandal set: fawn, jessica, and donna (three Sun computers). We expect }to name our next machine ollie, or perhaps gary, or whatever the next }scandal is. So, I'd be ejablow@fawn.jessica.sunysb.edu. YAY! Does jessica go down a lot? Had to be said-- greg
john@frog.UUCP (John Woods, Software) (02/03/88)
In article <866@elmgate.UUCP>, ram@elmgate.UUCP (Randy Martens) writes: > In article <2283@gryphon.CTS.COM> > richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: > >Any good sitenames anybody ? > Actually gryphon is not a bad one, but I rather like mine. > ... Hades . The site I read news on is entitled: X They made me take it out of the UUCP listing years ago, since it was "too short to be unique." Yet no other site had or has a one-letter name... -- John Woods, Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA, (617) 626-1101 ...!decvax!frog!john, ...!mit-eddie!jfw, jfw@eddie.mit.edu "Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation." -- Johnny Hart
peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva) (02/08/88)
In article <33393@mongo.uucp>, waynet@mongo.uucp (Wayne Thompson) writes: > How about MyAMI for a site name? Sorry, we already took that. Our two uupc-ed Amigas are "miami" and "argent". "myami" would be a bit confusing. -- -- Peter da Silva `-_-' ...!hoptoad!academ!uhnix1!sugar!peter -- Disclaimer: These U aren't mere opinions... these are *values*.