Re: Threat of running a web server?

From: kurt wismer (kurtw_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 01/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 12:23:44 -0500

Dazz wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:48:02 -0500, kurt wismer <kurtw@sympatico.ca>
> wrote:
>
> <snipped>
>
>>it looks to me like "Internet Information Services" is a product name,
>>like "Apache"... and like Apache, the product name does not necessarily
>>describe what the product contains...
>
>
> I disagree.
>
> IIS actually offers a range of services, such as http, ftp and nntp,
> so it does in effect describe what it offers - services.

those are not services, those are protocols... hypertext transfer
protocol, file transfer protocol, and network news transport
protocol... IIS contains servers that handle those protocols... calling
that a service or collection of services is like calling all the things
your local bank can do for you 'services'... it's not the same as the
services context used thus far (windows services)... 

-- 
"hungry people don't stay hungry for long
  they get hope from fire and smoke as the weak grow strong
  hungry people don't stay hungry for long
  they get hope from fire and smoke as they reach for the dawn"

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