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Subject: Re: MILNET/ARPANET performance
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Date: Wed, 29-May-85 20:24:41 EDT
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From: Steve Aliff <Aliff@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA>

You're right.  The original brain-damaged idea was to limit gateways to
mail only.  (Although I saw several iterations with limited Telnet,
etc.) That idea seems to have been abandoned, and rightfully so, in
favor of full inter-net gateways.  I can think of several applications,
and even more user environments, where leaving one's favorite terminal
niche to find a dial-up terminal to access a TAC doesn't come close to
being a working solution. Let's find and fix the real problem and not
bring up ghastly ideas from the past.

That's the longest flame I've had recently. Apologies to all innocents
caught in the crossfire.