[TechAssist] Slow list info
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- To: "TechAssist" <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:17:11 -0500
Those of you that may be experiencing slow posts at the list,
here is why below. This is from the list hosts. (Please DO
NOT reply to this post on list!)
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Just a heads-up: due to the recent IIS worm-of-the-week, things
like mail delivery will probably be slow around here for a few
days.
Thanks to poor software design in Windows NT/2000, IIS,
Internet Explorer, and MAPI-based Windows messaging,
this one can cause all sorts of havoc on just about all
Windows machines. Moral of the story: don't run
Windows. Moral #2: If you've got to run Windows,
don't run IIS.
I just went through our logs and mailed a couple dozen random
IIS
administrators expressing my thoughts on the situation. I
don't know
about the general public, but I'm sick and tired of the crappy
software-for-the-mindless-minions that Microsoft produces, and
it's time
something is done about it.
IIS offers you absolutely nothing that you can't find in
Apache, and
Windows offers you nothing you can't find on non-Windows OS's.
Please,
people, especially if you're in a position to control things in
your
business, don't go the Microsoft route.
And here's another thing that gets my loins in a knot: managers
that don't
know their *ass* from their *elbow*. If your pointy-haired
boss is about
to go out and spend $15,000 on the latest-greatest intel
hardware to run
the latest-poorest version of an OS from Redmond, ask him to
consider
this: not only is he wasting money now, but when the site gets
compromised
by some silly VB macro, and has to be taken down for several
hours for an
OS reinstall, and the business loses money, who's head is going
to roll
then?
So if your posts to FreeLists mailing lists seem to take a long
time for
the next few days, feel free to thank your L-User MCSE pals for
your time.
John
- Disgruntled FreeLists Staff
Administrative contact: weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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