[geeks] Why I hate Verizon Online

[Dave Fischer]

shannon at widomaker.com writes:

>I ended up getting my UUCP feeds from someone connected via a
>university, but it was still quite expensive in the end due to phone
>company charges.

>Even when I got an ISP around 1994 or so, I used UUCP until around 2001.
>I ran Taylor UUCP in uucp over tcp mode.

>It was a *LOT* faster than smtp or nntp because it was batched and
>compressed transfer.

I don't remember why, but I really disliked the idea of SLIP over
dialup, so I stayed with UUCP until I got broadband. 

Fed other people mail & news for most of that time too.

For a brief period I was maintaining my web site via
UUCP transfers.

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