From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 26 06:26:00 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA19952 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 06:26:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from houseofduck.thoroweb.com (houseofduck.thoroweb.com [206.252.145.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA19941 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 06:25:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shaggy@geocities.com) Received: from ntserver.remote.dti.net (www.thoroweb.com [206.252.145.145]) by houseofduck.thoroweb.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA00186 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 1997 04:25:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from shaggy@geocities.com) Received: by www.thoroweb.com with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1457.3) id ; Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:57 -0500 Message-ID: From: shaggy To: "'Susie Ward'" , Greg Lehey Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Web Page Restrictions Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:43:54 -0500 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1457.3) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tuesday, November 25, 1997 3:38 PM, Susie Ward [SMTP:sward@voltage.net] wrote: > At 07:14 PM 11/25/97 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > Let's say that MS creates it's own mail protocol that isn't compliant with > any of the current protocols in use today and let's say that MS included a > free email program that utilized this protocol on EVERY operating system > they sold. Now MS has a damn hefty market share do they not? How many of > YOUR users are using Win95? I know that 95% of mine are. Now lets say that > in order to operate a mail server that supported this protocol that all our > users are wanting so badly we had to purchase a mail server from MS and > what if MS wanted $1,000 for this "special" mail server? Like the $1200 we spent for Exchange Server? :-) > Susie