free collaborative tools for low BW and losy connections

[rsk at gsp.org (Rich Kulawiec)]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 09:59:53AM -0600, Grant Taylor via NANOG wrote:
> Something that might make you groan even more than NNTP is UUCP.  UUCP
> doesn't even have the system-to-system (real time) requirement that NNTP
> has.  It's quite possible to copy UUCP "Bag" files to removable media and
> use sneaker net t transfer things. 

I was remiss not to mention this as well.  *Absolutely* UUCP still has
its use cases, sneakernetting data among them.  It's been a long time
since "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes"
(Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, UTCS) but it still holds true for certain
values of (transport container, storage medium).

---rsk