Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Amigas as net sites (Was: Fish Disk benchmark result) Message-ID: <2151@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 12:53:05 EDT Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2151 Posted: Thu Jul 23 12:53:05 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 07:37:59 EDT References: <1424@crash.CTS.COM> Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 23 in article <1424@crash.CTS.COM>, doc@crash.CTS.COM (Mitch Evans) says: > > I am interested in finding out if the Amiga series is capable of becoming a > Net (UUCP, ARPA, or otherwise) site. Is there any hardware needed? If there > a package out there somewhere? What else should I know about it? What you need is a complete UUCP package for the Amiga, something that's not illegally ported from AT&T sources, of course. I expect something like this will be out in a few months. Next, you need to get a Usenet feed, and probably enough hard disk space to cover this. You may have some trouble getting a feed; imagine if a few hundred or even thousand Amiga owners in a given area all wanted to be Usenet nodes; the few hosts likely to be in that area now would be swamped, not to mention all the daily phone calls that they'd be involved with. Once solution to this problem that I've heard is to grant feeds to the Amigas on a call-in-only basis. So you pay for the phone calls, probably only accepted late at night. I'm sure there are other issues to consider, but the possibility of using an Amiga as a usenet site can't be very far off. As far as I know, there are no full UUCP packages for the Amiga out just yet. -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga Usenet: {ihnp4|caip|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh "The A2000 Guy" PLINK : D-DAVE H BIX : hazy "Catch a wave and you're sittin' on top of the world" -Beach Boys