Re: A Cyberspace Independence Refutation

[lmccarth@cs.umass.edu]

Ed Carp writes:
> If the Feds pulled the plug on the 
> backbone, I can see that there are a lot of people who would drag UUCP 
> and pathalias out of the closet, and the UUCP Mapping Project would live 
> again (hams have their own backbone are would be not as severely affected 
> by the backbone going away).
>
> Not that it wouldn't be hard - but it's doable.

I generally agree with this. But this would not be "the net as I know it"
by any stretch of my imagination. Most of the people who get high priority(*)
in my incoming mail wouldn't start doing UUCP. We could still do some
version of the cpunks list, but at some point I would lose some enthusiasm
for a "means to an end" that is just an end in itself.

(*) or rather, they will when I get my .procmailrc debugged

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