Re: Are you using the Windows Firewall?

Pete
Date: 02/03/05 

Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 10:05:04 -0600

"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Mediator wrote:
> > Steve,
> >
> > May I point out that your tone is rather truculent, and does not
> > befit a Microsoft person. I have read some of your other posts as
> > well, and yo have been somewhat dismissive of several folks. I
> > understand that some posters can be naive, or even rude at times.
> > However, as a representative of the largest software corporation in
> > the world, you need to rise above the pettiness and set a higher
> > standard.
>
> If you hung out in usenet groups a lot, I suspect that Mr. Riley's reply
> would have been as a mosquito bite is to a severed artery, in terms of
> politeness. This is a public forum - and it's a brutal world out there.
>
> It's hard to read stuff like "POS firewall" and not arrive at the
conclusion
> that you're just enjoying a nice good rant. Not that there's anything
wrong
> with that, but don't expect anyone to offer you a cappuccino or a foot
> massage in reply.
>
> Pax! :)

3 sentences make a rant? Methinks more of an outburst. ; )

"POS firewall" is probably harsh, but I think most will admit it's hardly
perfect. It appears to me that there is a consensus that it's better than
nothing. Most folks have answered the OP's question with the obvious
answers.

So the OP got his nose tweaked. BFD. The other 'softie may want to take a
vacation.
MS is the king of the hill and isn't going to get the benefit of the doubt
from a lot of folks. Particularly if it appears, as it could be argued in
the case of the OP, that their MS credentials are being used in a personal
persuit. (abeit with Redmond's blessing)

BTW, what does it take to merit a foot massage? 

--
Pete
>
> >
> > B. regards.
> >
> > "Steve Riley [MSFT]" <steriley@microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:64989632428919488433264@news.microsoft.com...
> >> It was a typo, we've all made such mistakes.
> >>
> >> And rather than whining, here's your chance to tell us what you'd
> >> like to see in the next version.
> >>
> >> Steve Riley
> >> steriley@microsoft.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> Michael Surkan [MS] wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I would still be eager to hear from you weather or not you plan on
> >>>> using the Windows Firewall.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Michael Surkan
> >>>> Program Manager, Networking & Devices, Microsoft
> >>> Don't they screen for basic language skills in Redmond, or should I
> >>> say, Great Britain?
> >>>
> >>> Here is an article about survey monkey Michael Surkan:
> >>> http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,114048,00.asp There are
> >>> more. (And no, I don't use the MS POS Firewall, come rain or shine,
> >>> and don't intend to, ever.)
> >>>
> >>> You're welcome,
> >>> Tetractys
> >>> VP, Looking Out My Living Room Window, LS/MFT
>
>

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