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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/12/2015 19:28, Jack Haverty
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<pre wrap="">Does anybody know more about the <b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>kinds<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> of interconnections that were
legal, illegal, feasible, and/or commonly used back in those early days?
E.G., was there any distinction between full IP connectivity (pass IP
datagrams), versus limited protocol connectivity (perhaps FTP/SMTP
only?). versus single-purpose connectivity (email only)?</pre>
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You might be interested in what was possibly the most helpful
document for us on JANET back in the days, to send email out to
various networks. We had to go through several hacks to route
messages in & out.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="ftp://ftp.warwick.ac.uk/pub/papers/mail-gateways.7.txt">ftp://ftp.warwick.ac.uk/pub/papers/mail-gateways.7.txt</a><br>
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Routing arrangements were even more obscure especially when trying
to reach things "outside" the usual TCP/IP space. Depending on who
was paying for what, you'd get bounced around/blacklisted or
whatever...<br>
Kindest regards,<br>
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Olivier<br>
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Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gih.com/ocl.html">http://www.gih.com/ocl.html</a>
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