| gabriel rosenkoetter on Sun, 24 Mar 2002 18:00:09 +0100 |
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On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 03:01:46PM -0500, Jon Galt wrote: > By the way, my ISP (Earthlink) does not charge by the minute. As for the > insecurity of ethernet (which I'm guessing you're referring to), that's > what firewalls are for! Or is it some negative aspect of PPP that you > meant? No, he's not referring to any insecurity, but suggesting that a logon protocol running over ethernet should give people the willies. I disagreed with that already. Len might also have been suggesting that a terminal protocol running over ethernet would be inappropriate, and he'd be right, but PPP's not a terminal protocol, really. -- gabriel rosenkoetter gr@eclipsed.net Attachment:
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