[ih] birth of the Internet?

Miles Fidelman mfidelman at meetinghouse.net
Thu Oct 28 13:29:18 PDT 2010


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> On 10/28/2010 15:40 EDT, Miles Fidelman wrote:
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>> 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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