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by bandrami 3224 days ago
I may have those too; I was at a company that bid to host microsoft.public around that time and their views on Usenet were very enlightening. I'll see if I can dig them up.

(Funniest part of the requirements spec: it had to "appear to be" hosted on a Windows server...)

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That is ... amusing.

As I recall, there was some degree of contention over whether or not Unix (a/k/a not infrequently Linux), or servers from a certain Redmond, WA, based company were superior and/or at all capable of general Internet hosting, at the time.

Hotmail comes to mind as well. FreeBSD.

Hotmail and Windows Update used to be hosted on FreeBSD, yes.