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From: spencer@eris (Randal m. Spencer [RmS])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HELP WANTED on UUCP for the Amiga
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Date: 30 Jan 88 03:23:08 GMT
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Recently on *comp.sys.amiga* pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) wrote:
...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.
...
...Or is this what everyone's been assuming all along, and I'm just asleep
...at the switch?

...-Peter Schachte

Heh, heh, heh...

Actually that is exactly what I am interested in setting up.  When I 
left collage (or is it "college") I immediately missed Usenet.  I looked
desparately for a feed.  Then I found the Well (as in ewhac@well or
perry@well) and as long as I was on there the thought of making my own
machine that had these capabilities was important to me.  So, I am following
these discussions closely.  I expect to have a BBS available soon that will
allow callers to read news (manually downloaded), and as UUPC makes news
available to me, then the above, only automatically.  Then eventually
when a UUPC comes along that is Peer to Peer (?) others will be able to
call my machine and get the most recent mail and such...  That is the
future for me!

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