On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 11:44:09PM +0000, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> until there's a sensible system to deal with roaming users' need to send
> mail as well as receive it, there will be open relays.
There is an RFC for a roaming IP scheme that allows you to get the same
address even when plugging into a "foreign" network. However I've yet to
see a working implementation of it anywhere. Seemed like a good idea.
At one point there was talk in the ham community of using this method to
give the Mir continuous connectivity via an array of amateur packet
stations around the globe but I don't think it actually got done (and it's
too late now).
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Received on Mon Feb 28 2000 - 18:35:44 GMT