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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" <almarrie@gmail.com> writes:
>> May I ask you why do you prefer portsnap over them?
> 
> It's simpler to use, and a lot faster.  It's also HTTP-based, which
> makes it firewall-friendly, even in braindead corporate environments.
> 
> DES
Plus the saving in bandwidth for a large number of machines (I know
bandwidth is cheap but still,) if you use a caching proxy. Oh and its
cryptographically signed if thats a concern :)


Vince