Subj : Re: Retro BBS Tech
To   : bl00d
From : Vk3jed
Date : Fri Jun 09 2017 06:53:00

-=> bl00d wrote to Vk3Jed <=-

 VK> I used UUCP (UUPC on DOS) and GIGO for my email/newsgroup feed in the
 VK> mid 1990s.  This worked well, until my provider at the time ceased
 VK> providing UUCP services.  I then had to resort to a different setup

 bl> Things were changing fast back in those days. Seems like once you got
 bl> something working and all setup, something else would come along that
 bl> was faster and easier.

Yes, they were exciting times, and when I worked in IT, it was very
interesting.  It was a time when you could build a lot of systems, and had to
do so, if you wanted a service without paying what the big end of town paid.  I
put a business on the Internet with a number of Linux boxes, forming an
Internet connected network complete with proper DMZ, screening firewall and a
NAT router.  A web server lived in the DMZ, and one or two other public facing
systems.  Today, all that stuff is done by cheap boxes from China (most of us
have at least one between us and the Internet ;) ).


.... It is broke. It will not work. It does not go.
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 * Origin: Freeway BBS - RetroNet QWK Hub, Bendigo, Australia (80:61/0)

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