Re: Has anyone else used UUCP on the go?

On 6/9/24 04:17, Molly A. McCollum wrote:

Hey all, I wanted to know if anyone else has this use case that I used UUCP for.

I have done this in the past.

I'm curious as to if anyone else used UUCP for this purpose. I like the delay-tolerant networking and the polling style, because it means that not everyone has to have a well-known address or always-online machine, only the gateway does.

What you call "delay tolerant networking" I refer to as "hop-by-hop" networking.  It is very nice to have, particularly when end-to-end networking can't be established, much less maintained.

Anyways, I'm curious to see what uses anyone else has used for UUCP on their own machines.

My biggest use case was -- what you called -- delay tolerant networking to send files between systems I used at home, work, and elsewhere.  It worked particularly well when I was on the road and didn't have IP connectivity (via port forwards from an unknown location) to systems inside my home / office network.  I could send files via the VPS which has a connection to my home and office and would relay files through just fine.
Once tuned, it worked better for large files that took a while to send. Queue them with uucp, they would go to the Internet gateway quickly across the LAN and then slowly go out the slow Internet connection while I was off doing other things having shut the source notebook down.
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Grant. . . .