<div dir="ltr"><div>OK, so some of you disparaged ListServ as being antiquated ...</div><div>Guess, what. It is OUTSIDE THE BORG CUBE<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://boingboing.net/2019/03/25/tilde-servers-r-us.html">https://boingboing.net/2019/03/25/tilde-servers-r-us.html</a></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><p>
UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy Protocol) is a venerable, non-hierarchical
networking protocol that was used as transport for early email and
Usenet message boards; its intrinsic decentralization and its
cooperative nature (UUCP hosts store and forward messages for one
another) make it a kind of symbol of the early, decentralized robustness
that characterized the early net and inspired so much optimism about a
fundamentally distributed arrangement of peers rising up to replace the
top-down phone companies and other centralized systems.
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As part of the <a href="https://boingboing.net/tag/decentralization">decentralized web movement</a>,
UUCP has been rebooted by Dataforge, a Fort Worth, Texas-based "hybrid
shell provider/tilde server" whose proprietor Wesley "praetor" Banderia
uses his decades of Unix systems administration to keep the system
running on a cluster of lovingly maintained vintage SGI machines with a
Google Cloud VPS for backup. <br></p><p>...<br></p></div></div>