Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!think!ames!ptsfa!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!hamilton From: hamilton@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amigas as net sites (Was: Fish Disk Message-ID: <172200083@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Sat, 25-Jul-87 16:51:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uxc.172200083 Posted: Sat Jul 25 16:51:00 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 26-Jul-87 21:36:53 EDT References: <2151@cbmvax.UUCP> Lines: 39 Nf-ID: #R:cbmvax.UUCP:2151:uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:172200083:000:1738 Nf-From: uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!hamilton Jul 25 15:51:00 1987 daveh@cbmvax says: > 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. actually... i wonder how hard it would be to write a gizmo that would read uucp C. files on the unix system and produce a "take" file or a shell script to drive kermit? surely news doesn't really care what the transport mechanism is. > I expect something like this will be out in a few months. true enough. there's a lot of activity right now involving "uuslave"s. amiga tcp/ip is another possibility. > 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. if cost is little/no object, i think there are already a couple of new-feeds-for-hire (eg, "uunet"?). if a market of hundreds or thousands of customers actually materializes, other providers will pop up. wayne hamilton U of Il and US Army Corps of Engineers CERL UUCP: {ihnp4,seismo,pur-ee,convex}!uiucuxc!hamilton ARPA: hamilton@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu USMail: Box 476, Urbana, IL 61801 CSNET: hamilton%uxc@uiuc.csnet Phone: (217)333-8703 CIS: [73047,544] PLink: w hamilton