From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Nov 21 8:15: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0482E37B401 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:15:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from rhadamanth.submonkey.net (pc1-cdif2-5-cust47.cdf.cable.ntl.com [81.101.150.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CABB543E42 for ; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:14:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from setantae@submonkey.net) Received: from setantae by rhadamanth.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18Etyf-000Hyi-00; Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:14:53 +0000 Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:14:53 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: FreeBSD Advocacy Subject: Re: TheRegister article on Hotmail Message-ID: <20021121161453.GA69019@submonkey.net> Mail-Followup-To: Ceri Davies , Anthony Atkielski , FreeBSD Advocacy References: <20021121135115.GA63164@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <006d01c29172$7abb7500$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20021121160000.GA68892@submonkey.net> <007f01c29177$8e2106a0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <007f01c29177$8e2106a0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> X-message-flag: All your linuxconf-configured redhat are belong to us. X-message-flag-attribution: suresh, sdm. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:03:38PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Ceri writes: > > > If you actually read the article, you'll see that > > they are converting the web servers. > > I did read the article, and both the front-end and the back-end servers are > mentioned. grep -i exchange shows no matches, and grep -i smtp only brings up one match where it says "The SMTP service of IIS was used to handle outgoing mail", and this is referring to the webservers themselves. > In any case, the same observations I've already made (albeit to > a lesser extent) apply to front-end web servers. Only this one (which I like, and will probably quote at parties ;) : Still, anything is possible if you can throw enough hardware at it, and if you are willing and able to tweak software until it looks like what you should have installed in the first place. The rest of your mail was about Exchange and how it isn't suited to Hotmail, which nobody said anyway. Sorry for jumping on you anyway. Ceri -- By the fearless blood! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message