MS-Exchange interoperability (was: making vars in bash script...)

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, at 1:50pm, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
>> Exchange is *far* from a perfect product, but making stuff
>> up isn't helpful to anyone.
> 
> In all honesty, and in all the time you've known me, have you ever known
> me to "make stuff up"?

  Okay, that was not the right term.  Indeed, I cannot think of a concise
way to express what I mean.  So here is the long version:

  Some Linux advocates have a tendency to take any story or anecdote which
is positive toward Linux or negative toward Microsoft as gospel.  Likewise,
they tend to automatically label anything which *isn't* overflowing praise
of Linux, or which contains -- heaven forbid -- defense of Microsoft as
lies, FUD, astroturfing, etc.

  I am afraid I may have encountered so much of this recently (coincidence,
I hope) that I have started to overcompensate for it.  When faced with such
an outright contradiction between what you were asserting and your own given
source for it, I assumed (ass-me'd) you were simply badmouthing Microsoft
out of habit.  It never occurred to me that you were simply mixing up the
protocols.

  I apologize for presuming that of you.  You are right; you deserve better
than that.

-- 
Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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