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Re: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

2001-01-22 20:50:01
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 01:11:12 +0100, Harald Alvestrand 
<Harald(_at_)Alvestrand(_dot_)no>  said:
I liked even better the horror story of the gateway that tried.....
until someone wrote "this gateway translates 
jcb(_at_)host(_dot_)company(_dot_)com into 
john(_dot_)c(_dot_)braindead(_at_)company(_dot_)com", and it came out to the 
recipient as
"this gateway translates john(_dot_)c(_dot_)braindead(_at_)company(_dot_)com 
into 
john(_dot_)c(_dot_)braindead(_at_)company(_dot_)com".....which somehow failed 
to get the point 
across....

The best one-paragraph summary of RFC2993 I've seen yet.

/V