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I may have those too; I was at a company that bid to host microsoft.public around that time and their views on Usenet were very enlightening. I'll see if I can
by bandrami 9y ago
I may have those too; I was at a company that bid to host microsoft.public around that time and their views on Usenet were very enlightening. I'll see if I can dig them up.
(Funniest part of the requirements spec: it had to "appear to be" hosted on a Windows server...)
- dredmorbius 9y agoThat is ... amusing. As I recall, there was some degree of contention over whether or not Unix (a/k/a not infrequently Linux), or servers from a certain Redmond, WA, based company were superior and/or at all capable of general Internet hosting, at the time. Hotmail comes to mind as well. FreeBSD.
- debdrup 9y agoHotmail and Windows Update used to be hosted on FreeBSD, yes.