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Re: Microsoft - Personal Web Server Extended UNICODE Directory

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David F. Skoll)
Tue Mar 20 20:50:27 2001

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Date:         Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:27:57 -0500
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From: "David F. Skoll" <dfs@ROARINGPENGUIN.COM>
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On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Microsoft Security Response Center wrote:

> Personal Web Server is, of course, not intended to host web sites on the
> Internet.  It's only intended to be used in protected environments such
> as home networks and the like.  If you're hosting an Internet site, IIS
> is the appropriate product to use.

Not according to Georgi Guninski.

It's a rather feeble excuse to dismiss bug reports in this manner.  Even
a server for so-called "protected" environments should have its bugs fixed.

--
David.

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