On Fri, 01 Nov 2002 09:10:59 EST, John Stracke <jstracke@centivinc.com> said: > Sean Jones wrote: > >I understand where I went wrong. But I doubt that any commercial enterprise would want to block access to MS servers in RL. > Well, it'd be a good way to inhibit people from sneaking Windows into > the company. And in addition, not all the net is a "commercial enterprise". There's a very large worldwide presence in the gov/edu/org arenas - and a *LOT* of those organizations have political, philosophical, or other reasons for blocking Microsoft. I'm sure there's privately held companies that can afford to have similar views - and I'm waiting for a shareholder suit against the board of a publicly held company for decreasing profits by continuing to permit the use a certain MUA even though it's one of the leading causes of virus and worm propagation... -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech
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