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From: scotty@l5comp.UUCP (Scott Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amigas as net sites (Was: Fish Disk benchmark result)
Message-ID: <304@l5comp.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 26-Jul-87 05:09:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: l5comp.304
Posted: Sun Jul 26 05:09:00 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 26-Jul-87 20:49:46 EDT
References: <1424@crash.CTS.COM> <2151@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: scotty@l5comp.UUCP (Scott Turner)
Organization: L5 Computing, Edmonds, WA
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Summary: uucp ain't the only way to Usenet.

In article <2151@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>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
Not true! The usenet software can be fed off a TCP/IP/SLIP connection.
Source code for TCP/IP is available in the non-commercial sector, unlike
it seems uucp. I know where there is a TCP/IP/SLIP package done in Aztec C
for use with IBM PC's, either drop me a line or go rummage through
comp.os.minix.

>and probably enough hard disk space to cover this.  You may have some
Understatement of the year there "and probably...", usenet eats hard disk
space as if it were sugar coated candy. Usenet feed is averaging about
2meg a day. That's 14meg a week, or nearly 60 meg a month.

>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
Obviously the topology of Usenet would have to change in that area. Some
Amiga's would have to take part of the load in getting news out to all
those amiga's in the area. Gateway machines from one local dialing area
to the next would have to be setup in order to neatly sidestep the long
distance phone problems.

Scott Turner
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