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Re: Demon redeem themselves ...

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From: Ben Lovejoy
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 00:00
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slavins@hearsay.demon.co.uk.NOJUNK (Simon Slavin) wrote:

>If you have an IP address that isn't behind either a firewall
>or a router programmed to drop intrusive packets, their packets
>will reach your machines.  If you don't have Internet-type
>software on your machines (more than just a web-browser), it
>probably doesn't matter.  Some software (like FileMaker Pro)
>which isn't obviously Internet-based software will still pick
>up some Internet packets and do things with them if correctly
>configured -- that's the stuff you have to watch.

Ah, don't think there's a problem there - we don't have anything like that.

Ben

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