news@ivucsb.UUCP (News Administrator <news>) (09/06/88)
In article <21244@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes: > The `Death of Usenet' has been announced annually for at least the > past 6 years, usually during summer. Interesting that it has been > `dying' for longer than it was `alive.' Just how long has USENET been alive, anyway? I just got my system linked up a month ago. Has anyone written a history of USENET? Could they post it or send it to me email?
karl@triceratops.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (09/07/88)
news@ivucsb.UUCP writes:
Just how long has USENET been alive, anyway? I just got my system linked up
a month ago.
Has anyone written a history of USENET? Could they post it or send it to
me email?
Periodically (monthly? bi-weekly?), an article titled, "USENET
Software: History and Sources," is posted to news.announce.newusers.
It'll come around soon again.
--Karlmouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) (09/10/88)
In article <16463@apple.Apple.COM>, fair@Apple.COM (Erik E. Fair) writes: > Answer: No. Dead on. > USENET is so richly connected that it would take an act of Congress > or a nuclear war to shut it down. I stopped worrying about the death > of the network in 1983 when USENET went over 500 sites. Not to recommend that people defy Congress or anything, but I can't see how Congress could possibly shut the net down without completely ruining computer-computer communication in general. > Have you sent in a UUCP map update to your regional coordinator > recently? Yes. Has he posted it? (How recent is *your* u.can.qc.1? (Canadian sites: no need to tell me; I got it too.)) der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu
chip@ateng.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) (09/19/88)
According to dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale): >For three years (or perhaps more), a machine called "micomvax" >provided the major newsfeed for the Montreal area. [...] >Two months ago, micomvax decided to get out of the news forwarding >business. [...] >A couple of weeks after that, the administrators for many of the Montreal >machines met in a bar downtown, and worked out a new distribution network. This method of problem-solving may be more common -- and effective -- than the net.doomsayers would have us believe. For example, when AT&T bowed out of the news forwarding business, much of Florida was stranded without a news feed. After one evening of head-bashing and mapmaking, we (Tampa Bay area) sysadmins arrived at a scheme which is better than before (it includes redundant feeds originating at uunet and gatech). As a bonus, the tba groups are now propagated faster. >As long as there are enough people with the desire to support it, and >some spare machine cycles and disk blocks, Usenet will remain connected. Righto. -- Chip Salzenberg <chip@ateng.uu.net> or <uunet!ateng!chip> A T Engineering My employer may or may not agree with me. The urgent leaves no time for the important.