@kelbot I'll also call out #UUCP. It was one of the last 2 large-scale asynchronous communication methods we had (the last being email, which still survives in that form). Could talk over anything. #NNCP is a worthy successor and, while it doesn't do modems, it does do #encryption and USB drives.

@kelbot I'll also call out #UUCP. It was one of the last 2 large-scale asynchronous communication methods we had (the last being email, which still survives in that form). Could talk over anything. #NNCP is a worthy successor and, while it doesn't do modems, it does do #encryption and USB drives.

Le sachiez-tu : sur le site Web d'Oracle, une des plus riches boites d'informatique du monde, il y a la documentation pour #UUCP : https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24843_01/html/E22298/uucpov-1.html

« UUCP permet aux ordinateurs de transférer des fichiers et d'échanger des messages électroniques entre eux. » Ça a l'air drôlement bien, ce truc, faudra que j'essaie.

In the end I took the plunge and decided that maybe having #nntp connections is not all that bad for our #uucp network.

Mostly because despite the beautiful simplicity of the protocol, actually getting uucp to work on modern machines is a whole different matter. It really is made for a dial-up world.

Also we don't actually have all that much traffic on our network to begin with, considering #usenet is kinda... I don't want to write dead, but it if it was a body it might start smelling soon.

In the end I took the plunge and decided that maybe having #nntp connections is not all that bad for our #uucp network.

Mostly because despite the beautiful simplicity of the protocol, actually getting uucp to work on modern machines is a whole different matter. It really is made for a dial-up world.

Also we don't actually have all that much traffic on our network to begin with, considering #usenet is kinda... I don't want to write dead, but it if it was a body it might start smelling soon.