Awatmath.1809 net.micro,net.news utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!watmath!bstempleton Sun Feb 21 01:13:46 1982 uucico for other machines A recent article in net.micro spoke of a version of uucico for the trash-80. It all sounds nice, but WATCH OUT! The usenet is getting big, with more sites and flow every day. There is debate as to whether it can grow much more without collapse of some sort. Exactly the thing to bring this on is the introduction of microcomputers to the forray. There are over 1,000,000 micros out there right now. A growing portion of them have modems and a large portion of those include autodialing/ autoanswering modems like those for the apple from Hayes and Novation. The figures are staggering. Naturally, we can restrict things by only letting limited numbers of micros have uucp logins on our machines. (gone will be the days of no password uucp logins) Even so, each micro may be connected to many others, and a large portion of the world will think that the uucp/usenet is a great way to get free electronic mail at the expense of DEC and BTL. The DCA will quickly take note of the fact that any microcomputer owner can send and receive mail to arpanet machines, and that will go away too. It would be nice to have a big, large scale usenet, but the way we have it now just can't support the load micros would bring. Beware! -Brad. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.