Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!mintaka!yale!quasi-eli!cs.yale.edu!Anselmo-Ed From: Anselmo-Ed@cs.yale.edu (Ed Anselmo) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Getting an Internet forwarder Message-ID: Date: 2 Jul 90 21:03:11 GMT References: Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 34 In-reply-to: fitz@wang.com's message of 29 Jun 90 23:07:00 GMT >>>>> On 29 Jun 90 23:07:00 GMT, fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) said: Tom> Even in Eastern MA (a pretty Internet-rich area) the UUCP sites Tom> vastly outnumber the forwarders. Not many Internet sites, Tom> especially commercial ones, can afford to dedicated resources and Tom> modem time to feeding mail to people's PCs. I'd expect that in Tom> places like Vermont and Maine, with few Internet nodes (if any), Tom> access would be much worse, and there are a few dozen UUCP sites Tom> out there. It doesn't require a lot resources from the Internet site -- in a previous life, my site acted as forwarder for about a dozen sites (in the mi.us and mi.org domains). The Internet connection was a flakey SLIP line to Merit. There was one cheesy 2400 baud modem. This all happened within about 8 months or so of my site getting connected up to the Internet (proving that even a part-time neophyte Internet sysadmin can do it). Basically, I did it so that I could learn more about sendmail. Tom> Some nudging could probably get well over half of the currently Tom> domainless UUCP sites registered, because they're in a major city Tom> or are willing to spend the $$$ for long distance rates. But the Tom> last few isolated nodes will still be in the UUCP zone for a Tom> while yet. Courtesy of Merit, an annex terminal server, and a horrendous UUCP chat script, I MX-ed for clmqt.marquette.mi.us from Ann Arbor for the price of a local call (Marquette is about a billion miles from Ann Arbor.... :-). Throughput sucked, but the mail got delivered. Steve Simmons (scs@iti.org) could probably tell you more about the Michigan setup. -- Ed Anselmo anselmo-ed@cs.yale.edu {harvard,decvax}!yale!anselmo-ed