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Date:      Mon, 11 Jan 1999 19:51:28 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        shibumi@cisco.com
Cc:        freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: this ran through my head yesterday...
Message-ID:  <199901111951.MAA25319@usr05.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199901101433.GAA06225@miranda-bsd.cisco.com> from "Kenton A. Hoover" at Jan 10, 99 06:33:42 am

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> To paraphrase: "No one ever got fired for buying Microsoft."
> 
> At a Fortune 500 technology company that shall remain nameless, an
> evaluation was done to decide on whether Microsoft Exchange should
> become the standard MTA/MHA for the company.  They actually hired
> Microsoft to do the evaluation for them.  Thats exactly like how
> people used to use IBM's services.  I'd like to be able to say that
> those were the bad ol' days, but apparently it isn't.

Har.

I hope they never hire anyone named O`Grady.  I know for a fact that
MS Exchange barfs on:

	Robert_O^x27Grady@somewhere.com

8-).

You'd think they'd hire someone who could read ABNF and RFC's...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.

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