Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:08:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Eivind Eklund <perhaps@yes.no> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.psinet.net.au> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: uunet vs. internet Message-ID: <199708101208.OAA04516@bitbox.follo.net> In-Reply-To: Adrian Chadd's message of Sun, 10 Aug 1997 16:58:13 %2B0800 (WST) References: <199708100610.CAA03240@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970810164726.474A-100000@obiwan.psinet.net.au>
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> > On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > > > Well, the Internet has changed from its humble beginnings as the > > old UUCP net, and ARPANET. Used to it was ham radio, then BBS's, then > > the net. What bastions for hobbyists are there now, something where > > the popularity doesn't make me sick after fifteen minutes of use? > > Being someone who entered the BBS scene around Oct '95, I watched the > whole BBS thing in Western Australia shrivel up and die. Which was a sad > thing, cause I liked BBS's. > > I was actually tossing up whether to setup an IPv6 tunnel network between > local Perth ISPs, then linking the "network" to somewhere in the eastern > states. Anyone else on here game? Even an IPIP tunnel with our own network > would be really funky. Any reason to go for these instead of PPP over TCP/IP, which we already have support for? PPP over TCP over SSH, and you have a VPN there and then. (Well, perhaps you'd want to add name-resolving...) The process of booting a separate Usenet has started. Perhaps it is the time for a new Internet? :-) Eivind.
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