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RE: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

  • From: Martin J. Levy
  • Date: Mon Aug 30 19:14:45 2004

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





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