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echo: osdebate
to: Robert Comer
from: Scott Little
date: 2004-02-08 05:58:40
subject: OK, what happened to my message?

[ 06 Feb 04 19:16, Robert Comer wrote to Frank Haber ]

 RC> Not in my experience, all the NAT devices I've seen default to block
 RC> all incoming and most users wouldn't know how to change that.

Many NAT boxes support UPNP, in which case Windows will do all the
port-forwarding automagically for applications that request open ports
(like MSN, IIRC).


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