Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?

[Steven Bellovin <smb () cs columbia edu>]

On Apr 4, 2010, at 6:55 07PM, Randy Bush wrote:

> > the visibility of the path was the only thing ordinary users had to
> > worry about.
>
> you forgot, "and thus sigs were born."  they once served a purpose other
> than ego

Right, of course -- they had to show the uucp path from a well-known node.

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb