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Date:      Wed, 11 Nov 1998 10:35:58 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Interesting: Microsoft tried to move Hotmail to NT and failed.
Message-ID:  <19981111103558.O18183@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <364811C2.68D620BE@uk.radan.com>; from Mark Ovens on Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 10:13:22AM %2B0000
References:  <3647B9E7.BCC59A27@airnet.net> <Pine.SOL.3.96.981109231141.8762A-100000@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> <19981110155600.B499@freebie.lemis.com> <364811C2.68D620BE@uk.radan.com>

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On Tuesday, 10 November 1998 at 10:13:22 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote:
> Greg Lehey wrote:
>>
>> On Monday,  9 November 1998 at 23:12:44 +0500, Pedro Fernando Giffuni wrote:
>>> On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Kris Kirby wrote:
>>>
>>>> <http://www.unix-vs-nt.org/kirch/hotmail.html>;
>>>>
>>>> It seems that NT couldn't handle the load. Too bad...
>>>
>>> Old story...go to the Apache site and follow the link that find{s out what
>>> web server a site is running..point to hotmail and...BINGO..!!
>>
>> For those of you who can't be bothered to guess which site, etc., it's
>> http://www.netcraft.co.uk/cgi-bin/Survey/whats.  The result reads:
>>
>>    www.hotmail.com is running Apache/1.2.1 on FreeBSD.
>>
>>    Apache is also being used by Javasoft, Financial Times, W3
>>    Consortium and The Royal Family.
>>
>
> Hmm, Apache should be entitled to get the Royal Crest and "By Royal
> Appointment. Apache, purveyors of fine Software" on their products
> ;-)

Right.

>> You'll notice the British references.
>
> What significance are you attaching to this fact?

It looks a little quaint: "The Royal Family".  How many royal families
do you think there are?  There's nothing apart from the URL to suggest
that this is the *British* Royal Family.

Greg
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