uucp for sneakernet (was Re: Emulating the School...]

[Adrian Chadd]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2008, david at lang.hm wrote:

> the good news is that you can simulate things by useing UDP broadcast 
> packets as your transport layer.

Well yes, I did usenet/proxy object stuff over UDP.

> don't get fixated on the idea of using satellites, as a means for 
> publishing updates a high-powered AM or SSB station can blanket a large 
> area, and the efficiancy gained by only transmitting things a couple times 
> (including error correction to deal with missed packets) instead of once 
> to each destination can counter the drawback of a low bit rate.

Terrestrial RF would certainly be interesting to trial, but I don't have
any equipment here to toy around with and I don't have a radio licence
to roll my own.

Still, I'd be interested in helping out if anyone is interested.


Adrian