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		coatmatter on June 23, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an I... Having open ports directly to the internet (by default) with dial up modems (before routers and NAT) used to be such a common practice. Things have changed, haven't they?

freeflight on June 24, 2018 [–]

That's a pretty good point I totally forgot about. Tho couldn't that problem "simply" be solved by updating the protocol to account for these changes?

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