On 15-Apr-2000 04:26:22 George Bonser wrote: > On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Pollywog wrote: > >> We e-mailed back and forth a few times and it came out that what >> they >> meant was that they don't know anything about Linux and that >> trying >> to run it would be a security risk because they don't know how to >> configure it. > > Point out that NT is a security risk even if you KNOW how to > configure it >:) Because the source is closed, there could be any number of >:backdoors > and potential exploits that only Microsoft and the "bad guys" know > about.
You probably read about the backdoor in some MS products, a password that some MS employees put in the software, which allows those people to access servers and steal data from them. > > Why would you go with an NT ISP in the first place? I sure hope > they don't > have your credit card number :-o No, I didn't. They contacted me after reading a reply of mine to a question asked on a mailing list. They should have e-mailed the original poster but they e-mailed me instead. I did not have them host my domain precisely because they are an NT ISP, but I did not tell them so until today. -- Andrew
