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Re: ???Question???
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Date: 
Sat, 20 May 2000 03:49:22 GMT
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mattdm@mattdm*nomorespam*.org
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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.

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Matthew Miller                      --->                  mattdm@mattdm.org
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