[ih] birth of the Internet?
Miles Fidelman
mfidelman at meetinghouse.net
Thu Oct 28 13:29:18 PDT 2010
>
> On 10/28/2010 15:40 EDT, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>
>> Hmmm.... does that suggest that the mailbridge gateways were the
>> embryonic Internet? :-)
>>
> They weren't fully transparent IP forwarders.
>
As I recall, they weren't supposed to be transparent forwarders, but in
practice nobody every configured the filters. Bob Hinden - care to comment?
Miles
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