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Subject: Re: [9fans] sources cd images (was lp...)
From: C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com>
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Date: Wed,  9 Oct 2002 10:17:10 +0100
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>>Many such people do exist.  In my experience more and more organizations are
>>restricting what ports are accessible to the outside world, in some cases
>>bringing these down to just HTTP and HTTPS.

even though more and more software systems seem to provide http tunnels
so that their RPC requests can pop up the other side of a firewall
presumably to allow people to get their work done.
(rob's earlier post on `Security' is relevant here.)