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Re: XDMCP on Windows 95
On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 04:33:26PM -0500, Harold L Hunt II wrote:
>I am not understanding why your response was appropriate. The default
>port for XDM has nothing to do with Microsoft, unless Microsoft has
>decided to use port 177 for one of their products. If that was the
>case, then a simple mention that ``Product Foo'' uses port 177 would
>have been sufficient, right?
AFAICT, it's the standard Cygwin response #13, issued when someone is
confused about the process and wants to make a point by letting everyone
know how bad Microsoft is and exhorting all of us not to be that way.
In other words, it was a value-free message. Alexander's response was
perfectly clear and he didn't need to be taken to task for some imagined
attitude.
cgf