Who: San Francisco Bay Area FreeBSD User's Group When: Thursday March 12, 1998 Where: Silicon Reef - 3057 17th Street (x Folsom & Harrison Streets) Dr. Sudwell Brewer will discuss implementing POSIX hops as an alternative to the traditional MIT hops implementation of UUBP (Unix to Unix Beer Protocol). A discussion of the relevant drinking vessels and RFC's will be followed by a lager vs. ale debate and a slide show illustrating characteristics of userspace barley vs. kernel barley. Bring your own bottle opener. UUBP - - ---- NAME uubp -- Unix-to-Unix beer protocol SYNOPSIS uubp [- acefghlqy] site DESCRIPTION uubp allows the user to transfer beer, ale, or other fermented grain beverages between network sites. Using TCP/IP (telecommunications protocol for imbibing pilsners), uubp encodes beer from a local file system into packets suitable for FTP (fermentation transfer protocol) delivery at a remote IP site. Example: % uubp -c"AMBER" -f0.7 -y0 -q2 198.137.240.100 The preceding example sends two six-packs (-q2) of amber ale (-c"AMBER") with a fizziness quotient of 70%, brewed using yeast of type 0 (saccharo-myces cerevisiae) to IP address 198.137.240.100, which is the IP address for the White House. RESTRICTIONS Both source and destination sites must be running uubp-daemon. In addition, local restrictions exist in many areas for the transportation of alcohol across state lines. The Electronic Frontier Foundation is currently involved in litigation to ensure the ability to distribute beer through the uubp protocol according to the 21st Amendment. To support the SIG of EFF devoted to this cause, join the Homebrewers of the Electronic Frontier Engaged in Winning Electronic Independence and Zeroing Establishment Nonsense (HEFEWEIZEN), or send mail to hefeweizen@eff.eff.org. Be sure to include the entire text of this manual page. NOTES Relax. Don't worry. Have a homebrew!