[ih] Maps or lists of early UUCP nodes/networks in the Boston area?

[Dan York]

Greg,

Thanks for the detective work! Comments inline…

On May 11, 2026, at 2:06 PM, Greg Skinner <gregskinner0 at icloud.com> wrote:

I was able to find several entries for ’srbci’ with the Google Groups query https://groups.google.com/g/comp.mail.maps/search?q=srbci.

🤦‍♂️ Brilliant! Of course that would be a logical way to search!

From the looks of several of these entries, such as the following, ‘mv’ was a UUCP neighbor of ’srbci’.

Yes, my recollection is that it was our *only* neighbor. Everything we sent/received went through mv.

This part…

# Outgoing calls:
mv decvax(DIRECT+HIGH), ditka(EVENING+FAST), harvard(EVENING+FAST),
jjmhome(EVENING)
#
# Incoming calls:
mv balrog(DAILY),
contek(POLLED), <critz>(DIRECT+FAST), ctedge(DIRECT),
<eci>(DIRECT), <goldfnch>(WEEKLY), <helmers>(DIRECT),
<jlc>(DIRECT), lemuria(DIRECT+FAST), <loiosh>(DIRECT),
midnight(DAILY+FAST), <molly-bloom>(DIRECT),
<objects>(DAILY), <pondsquid>(DIRECT),
<pulsar>(DIRECT), <pophyn>(DIRECT), <rr>(WEEKLY/2),
<siia>(DIRECT), <srbci>(DIRECT),
<summa4>(DIRECT), <three>(WEEKLY+FAST),
<trashbin>(DIRECT), <vauto>(DIRECT), <verbal1>(DIRECT),
<virgin>(EVENING+FAST), <wgc386>(DIRECT), <wtfm>(DIRECT),
<zinn>(DIRECT)
#
# Misc reverse definitions:
harvard mv(EVENING)
decvax mv(DIRECT+HIGH)

… makes me think that perhaps my memory of the “mit” part of the bang-path may be faulty.  I might have had the “vax” part right but the owner wrong. Perhaps the address was “decvax!mv!srbci!ldy”.

'mit-vax' could have been an undocumented UUCP neighbor of ‘mv’.  It appears on USENET maps from the 1980s available by issuing a similar Google Groups query in net.news.map.

It could have been. It also could be a complete fabrication of my brain 30+ years later.

This conversation also reminds me that what I really should is simply reach out to Mark Mallett, who used to run MV Communications, and ask him! 💡I do have some contact info for him.

Many thanks, Greg!

Dan