@node Comparison
+@cindex comparison
+@cindex SMTP
+@cindex FTN
+@cindex FidoNet
+@cindex UUCP
@unnumbered Comparison with existing solutions
Here is comparison with @url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP, UUCP}
-(Unix to Unix copy), FTN (@url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet,
-FidoNet} Technology Networks) and @url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMTP, SMTP}
+(Unix to Unix copy), FTN (@url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet, FidoNet}
+Technology Networks) and @url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMTP, SMTP}
(because it is also store-and-forward solution).
@multitable @columnfractions 0.40 0.15 0.15 0.15 0.15
UUCP and NNCP does not known nothing about routing. You have to
explicitly tell how to send (what hops to use) packets to each node.
+@cindex PSTN
@item PSTN support
UUCP and FidoNet always have been working with modems out-of-box.
Only many years later they gained support for working over TCP/IP
TCP daemon, but nothing prohibits using of another 8-bit aware
online transport.
+@cindex anonymity
+@cindex Sybil attack
@item Anonymous peers
NNCP and FTN are friend-to-friend networks exclusively. This is very
secure and mitigates many possible man-in-the-middle (MitM) and
@url{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack, Sybil} attacks.
+@cindex sneakernet
+@cindex floppynet
@item Sneakernet friendliness
No one, except NNCP, supports data exchanging via removable storages
likes flash drives, CD-ROMs, tapes and hard drives out-of-box. It
@end table
+@cindex UUCP commands
Also there is
@url{https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10165-asynchronous-email-exim-over-nncp-or-uucp, copy of}
comparable commands of UUCP and NNCP, just for the interest:
@multitable @columnfractions 0.5 0.25 0.25
@headitem Purpose @tab UUCP @tab NNCP
+@pindex uucico
+@pindex uupoll
+@pindex uux
+@pindex uucp
+@pindex uuxqt
@item Connect to remote system
@tab @command{uucico -s}, @command{uupoll}
- @tab @command{nncp-call}, @command{nncp-caller}
+ @tab @command{@ref{nncp-call}}, @command{nncp-caller}
@item Receive connection (pipe, daemon, etc)
@tab @command{uucico} (@option{-l} or similar)
- @tab @command{nncp-daemon}
+ @tab @command{@ref{nncp-daemon}}
@item Request remote execution, @code{stdin} piped in
@tab @command{uux}
- @tab @command{nncp-exec}
+ @tab @command{@ref{nncp-exec}}
@item Copy file to remote machine
@tab @command{uucp}
- @tab @command{nncp-file}
+ @tab @command{@ref{nncp-file}}
@item Copy file from remote machine
@tab @command{uucp}
- @tab @command{nncp-freq}
+ @tab @command{@ref{nncp-freq}}
@item Process received requests
@tab @command{uuxqt}
- @tab @command{nncp-toss}
+ @tab @command{@ref{nncp-toss}}
@item Move outbound requests to dir (for USB stick, airgap, etc)
@tab N/A
- @tab @command{nncp-xfer}
+ @tab @command{@ref{nncp-xfer}}
@item Create streaming package of outbound requests
@tab N/A
- @tab @command{nncp-bundle}
+ @tab @command{@ref{nncp-bundle}}
@end multitable