[73647] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin J. Levy)
Mon Aug 30 19:13:15 2004
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:12:31 -0700
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
From: "Martin J. Levy" <mahtin@mahtin.com>
Cc: Bora Akyol <bora@cisco.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0408301840560.22781@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sean,
>There were lots of FTP mirrors around.
>Every Sun workstation could have a Anonymous FTP. Of course, the problem
>was every Sun workstation could be an Anonymous FTP :-)
... but you forgot to mention that filtering and firewalls and NAT were not in common use, hence everywhere was accessible from everywhere. P2P was all there was.
Martin
