Re: [VANILLA-LIST:3019] technical question

[Dave Ahn <ahn@vec.wfubmc.edu>]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 03:25:58PM -0500, Alec Habig wrote:
> Dave Ahn writes:
> > Besides, Netrek does use peer-to-peer if you think about it.  The
> > most obvious example are the individual and team messages and RCDs...
> 
> Nope - everything goes through the server.  My client never talks
> directly to yours.  The server doles out messages to the recipients on a
> need-to-know basis.

I believe the message packets that get routed client1 -> server -> client2
without being modified can technically qualify as peer-to-peer for patent
purposes.  That is what I meant.  You can think of it as packet relaying.

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