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Re: [Help-gnunet] Re: need help on messaging open source software if pos
From: |
Kenneth Stailey |
Subject: |
Re: [Help-gnunet] Re: need help on messaging open source software if possible |
Date: |
Sun, 4 May 2003 06:58:10 -0700 (PDT) |
--- Kenneth Stailey <address@hidden> wrote:
> --- Daniel Seagraves <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Thu, 1 May 2003, Stephen Jones wrote:
> >
> > > Just for the record, I use UUCP (and have for 10+ years) for queuing of
> > > mail on two secondary MXes for 100+ domains. The primary MX is SMTP.
> > > Is this the real world? ;-) I'm actually doing the same for twenex.org
> > > and have the unix host reprocess the mail later .. again, if SMTP is ever
> > > down for an extended period.
> >
> > I use UUCP to deliver mail to my home machines through my firewall and
> > my ISP's firewall. My ISP blocks mail ports to force you to use their
> > mailserver, and I don't want to do that because I have lunar-tokyo.net. So
> > I have my home machines poll UUCP over TCP. It solves my problem nicely,
> > do I count as real? (In the event that I am not real, does it entitle me
> > to tax breaks? As far as I know nonexistent people do not pay taxes ^_^)
>
> Wow, this really started me thinking. In the past I was discussing GNUnet
> with
> a friend of mine and he suggested that using E-mail as a message transport
> would not be that hard to defeat by those in control of SMTP gateways. Now
> the
> idea of using UUCP over TCP to bypass those that are interfering with your
> SMTP
> makes the idea of using E-mail as a message transport even more robust.
SMTP assumes the downstream is a server capable of accept()ing connections
while UUCP allows the downstream to connect() to the upstream via polling.
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