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PS: if my tone seems annoyed or even antagonistic in the past few messages,
it's not at anyone here -- it's at Microsoft. I try to avoid MS-bashing as
much as I can, but this is blatently evil [1]. It's like the Kerberos thing,
but arguably worse -- far more widespread, and I think most sysadmins
understand that ms-kerberos isn't going to actually work with anything else,
whereas almost everyone assumes that Microsoft's web/news/e-mail software
can interoperate with the Internet.
[1] not illegal; just evil.
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
Boston University Linux ---> http://linux.bu.edu/
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