Date:        Tue, 7 Dec 2004 02:58:32 +0000
    From:        "Charles M. Hannum" <abuse@spamalicious.com>
    Message-ID:  <200412070258.32453.abuse@spamalicious.com>

  | Technically that's not correct.  Support for multiple loopback devices was 
  | added very early on (though in a rather broken way that I had to fix later), 
  | but it was not present in any CSRG release AFAIK.

Sorry, for me "always" means "as far back as I remember this week",
which may mean anything from a few days to a year or so...

This however reinforces the point that adding the ability was a
conscious design decision, and not just an accident of how the code
happened to get written - and is certainly not a change made in the
past few days.

kre