[MCTG] Rebooting UUCP to redecentralize the net

[Stewart Dickson]

OK, so some of you disparaged ListServ as being antiquated ...
Guess, what.  It is OUTSIDE THE BORG CUBE
https://boingboing.net/2019/03/25/tilde-servers-r-us.html

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.

As part of the decentralized web movement
<https://boingboing.net/tag/decentralization>, 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.

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