[ih] The First Atlantic CyberWar - was uucp

[Clem Cole]

That makes sense.

Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual


On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM Craig Partridge <craig at tereschau.net> wrote:

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> On Tue, Apr 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM Clem Cole via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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>> IIRC, once I subscribed to UUNET, I severed any link to a long-distance
>> site and was forced to use Telenet, which I don't remember. The way it
>> worked is that Rick never called you.   He had a ton of space, and you
>> polled him.  If you didn't get a netnews feed, polling him once or twice a
>> day via email was quick and reasonable.
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> Just a footnote here, this situation was not true for CSNET/UUNET.
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> Larger story: both CSNET and SEISMO/UUNET (Rick's unit) did most of their
> email transfers after 5pm their local time (due to
> the aforementioned calling tariffs, which dropped sharply after 5pm).  A
> couple of hours after that, CSNET
> and SEISMO would start to hammer the ARPANET (go back and look at the
> ARPANET stats and my recollection is
> you'll see their ports were typically in the top 3, with SRI-NIC being the
> third) relaying emails between each other.
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> If either end had a hiccough, it usually meant a phone call at 1am (at
> least at the CSNET end, from the BBN computer
> center admins) indicating that disks were about to fill/overflow.
> Sometimes things would not clear by morning and I
> remember occasional chats with Rick about making sure our respective
> queues were tidied up before the next
> evening's rush.  (Part of the dynamic here was that CSNET made two calls
> to each site every night -- the first delivery the
> day's ARPANET email and pick up the site's email.  The second to deliver
> all emails we'd received from other sites on
> CSNET plus UUNET email.  And on busy days, we narrowly finished up those
> calls before tariffs went up.  So there was
> a certain amount of managing queues to try to ensure the next night would
> go well).
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> Craig (former CSNET techie)
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