On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 11:11 -0600, Patrick Anderson wrote: > > This language is both ageist and sexist. > > Sorry, I meant non-guru.
Non-gurus use BitTorrent on a regular basis. BitTorrent is a great example of a peer-to-peer network that is very useful and needs port forwarding. Virtually all bittorrent clients now can automatically configure forwarded ports. Further, within a network of freedomboxen, only some need to be able to communicate on privileged ports (such as the port for email, which is the only one I know of that is actively blocked by ISPs). I think your concern is a valid one, especially if we want to provide network services that are drop-in replacements for existing current ones, but that seems not to be the way things are going. (Further, won't IPv6 solve this again? Not that I'd want to bet a system on IPv6 deployment...) -- Sent from Ubuntu
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