Subj : Win2k ban?
To   : Jay Fuller
From : Michael Grant
Date : Tue Dec 03 2002 11:04 pm

Hello Jay.

03 Dec 02 00:11, you wrote to me:

 MG> SH>> I'm inclined to agree with Microsoft.  We have at least 50
 MG> SH>> systems running Wiundows 2000 at my employer's workplace and
 MG> SH>> it does not have these problems.

 MG>> And I run NT 4.0 here, and run web, e-mail and FTP servers with it.
 MG>> It's a /very/ secure system.

 JF> Which email server do you run with nt-4... ?  Exchange?

I don't run IIS, so I use the Mercury/Win32 e-mail server. It's completely 
free, the author only charges for the manuals and technical support, but 
there's plenty of online help available as well. It's a pretty decent e-mail 
server, with a lot of features, but it won't run as a service, unless you use a 
utility (which came with the NT Resource kit) called SRVANY that allows you to 
run any program as a service. I don't have remote users on my NT system, and I 
don't have any trouble just running it in the background, so I didn't bother 
looking for that utility yet.

It will work with a dynamic IP, provided you use a DNS subdomain/IP redirection 
service, and enter your subdomain in the config. It will also support multiple 
domains.

 JF>  Also, how do you feel about the discontinued support for nt-4 ?

Well, since Win 2000 is in reality Win NT v5.0, I guess it was inevitable. I 
must say, for it's age (released in 1996) it sure was advanced for it's time. 
After struggling with mail hubbing and 24/7 BBS stuff for a few years with Win 
95 and then Win 98, I now sure wished I'd started out with NT in the first 
place. I tried Linux along the way, and I liked it, but BBSing under it can 
pretty get complicated, while NT is a little more familiar, and older BBS stuff 
will still work under it.

The way Microsoft does things, I'd say we've been pretty lucky that they've 
supported it for as long as they did...


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