[geeks] nerd reading for a Friday night ... old-skool waxed

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>> Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:43:08PM -0500, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>>>>>> Does anyone remember their bang-path?
>>>>> uunet!gsm001
>>>> Bang path from where, though...?
>>> It didn't matter if your system was properly set up in the maps.
>> The common ones I remember people giving came from ucbvax (or ucbarpa), 
>> uunet or decvax.
> 
> There were literally thousands of systems you could use if you could
> make a deal to get configured with them, or at least someone close by.
> 
> That's what I did: waggen was a machine that ODU configured a route to,
> so the owner of that machine hooked my machine up.  That gave me a
> relatively short bang path.
> 
> Unfortunately, I had to pay 21 cents/minute (roughly) to transfer UUCP
> packets, even though ODU was only about 15 miles away.  Stupid POTS zones...

That's not what I meant.

What I meant was that many people provided bang-paths to those 
particular machines because they were well connected and well known. 
Literally everyone knew how to get the ucbvax.  It was the center of the 
UUCP network.

Peace...  Sridhar