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Re: quietly....


From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:46:31 -0500

On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:20:25 EST, Lamar Owen said:
FTP is a in essence a peer-to-peer protocol, as both ends initiate TCP streams.  I know that's nitpicking, but it is 
true.

Well, it's official - the original end-to-end design principal of the Internet is
dead, deceased, and buried.  Henceforth, there will be Clients, and there will
be Servers, and all nodes will be permanently classified as one or the other,
with no changing or intermixing of status allowed.

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