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Subject:Re: Cloud? Firewall? From:Lori Lathrop <76620 -dot- 456 -at- COMPUSERVE -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 10 Jan 1995 09:47:39 EST
I sent my response directly to Margaret Knox, who asked the question
about Internet terminology but, since someone asked that responses be
posted to the list as well, FWIW, here it is ....
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Margaret -- I'm responding to your note on TECHWR-L. I've often seen
documentation & illustrations of the Internet that refer to it and show
it as a cloud. I'm not familiar with the *firewall* terminology, but my
guess is that it represents the TCP/IP transport protocol.
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