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From: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HELP WANTED on UUCP for the Amiga
Summary: The technical issues seem addressable, but where does a lowly
	 amiga hacker get a mail/news feed?
Keywords: UUCP uucp UUPC hack shareware
Message-ID: <595@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jan 88 23:42:58 GMT
References: <000@amy.UUCP>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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UUPC or an original Amiga uucp seems like a great thing to have.  But
all this is useless if one can't get a news feed.  I don't think too
many corporations or benevolent enough to feed a lowly single-person PC
without getting something for their trouble.  Are there?

I had an idea a while ago about how to run a *free* mail network.
Every phone exchange has a certain set of exchanges it can call for
free.  But some of those exchanges can call *different* exchanges.  So
it should be possible to cover great distances with only local calls,
if you have enough people participating.  In areas with densely
packed Amiga users mightn't it be possible to set up such a network?
Then you'd only need one gateway to the rest of the networld, and you'd
have a better argument to make to Joe Corporate that he'd be doing a
great thing for the wider computing community.

I love the idea of my Amiga collecting all sorts of interesting info
while I'm at work, or sleeping.  Modems are pretty cheap these days.
I'd certainly buy one if I could get usenet access for free (no long
distance charges).  I'll bet lots of people would.

Or is this what everyone's been assuming all along, and I'm just asleep
at the switch?
-- 
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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