Strange log entries

[Tim Wunder]

On 1/21/2004 2:51 PM, I believe that David A. Bandel wrote:
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> 
> So, tell the customer if they want you to access their web site, they'll
> change it.
> 

Not my decision to make. And I'm not about to jeopardize my job over it. 
Will you provide me a job if I get fired because I gave our #1 customer 
an ultimatum? Sorry to say, no one gets fired for using M$. (That is not 
to say that's the way it *should* be, it just *is* that way.)

> 
>>Complaints were made to the 3rd party who managed the website (well,
>>not "complaints," but suggestions) but nothing has really changed with
>>it since then (August last year.)
> 
> 
> Like you expect that to happen?  Their ramming M$ carp down your throat

They actually seemed OK with my suggestion. (I was very diplomatic.) 
Like many, they're understaffed and overworked...

> should not be any more acceptable than you ramming Linux down theirs,
> and they need to be told that in no uncertain terms.  Then you block
> them from your web site and mail server and tell them they can't access
> your Linux systems with Windoze.
> 
> 
>>No, as much as I'd personally like to see it, we just aren't in
>>position to migrate to linux on users' desktop machines.  :-(
> 
> 
> Why not? Because of one customer?  Is their name M$?
> 

Yes, one customer. 40% of our business. And no, they're not M$.

Regards,
Tim