Re: What are they?

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Fri, 12 Jun 1998 13:41:32 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Riley Williams wrote:

> > I updated my PPTP masquerading patch to work with 2.1.105. It seems
> > to work for me. It can be found at
>
> > http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/linux_pptp.html
>
> In that one email, there are two acronyms which don't appear to make
> sense, so perhaps somebody can decode them for me...
>
> Q> GRE = Grampian Railway Enthusiasts [Club]
> Q> PPTP = Publicity, Promotions & Training Panel
>
> Presumably, those are the wrong meanings thereof...

I'm no expert, nor do I know exactly what he meant, but my first
impression of GRE was "PostGREsql"... PPTP is Point to Point
Tunneling Protocol.

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