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Re: BofA+Netscape
>have you ever been in an empty lab with an htpd server - late at night? You
>can HEAR it when Mozzilla hits the site. Two or three Mozzilla users at the
>same time will kill your server. Unless, I understand, it uses your server
>software for which you charge money.
Wrong wrong wrong, not true, false, unsubstantiated, in error.
Attached is a note from the author of WinHTTPD that answers a similar
accusation made in news last month.
Marc
> Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.users
> Path: flop.mcom.com!news.Stanford.EDU!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!rdenny
> From: [email protected] (Robert Denny)
> Subject: Use WinHTTPD 1.3e! (was: Everyone Please Read!...)
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
> References: <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 02:48:54 GMT
> Lines: 21
>
> In <[email protected]> [email protected] (Chris Barnett) writes:
>
> >There must be something wrong with your server. I'm running WinHTTPD1.3e
> >on a 486-33 w/8MB o' ram and I don't have any problems with Netscape. I
> >use Netscape all the time and I've had lots of people using Netscape
> >access my server without any problems at all. Granted, there is practically
> >nothing on my site (people that said they would write homepages for their
> >divisions haven't yet), but I do have a pretty steady load of users and I
> >haven't had any problems. Asking everyone else on the Net to change simply
> >won't work.
>
> The irritating thing about this affair is that I have been very vocal about
> the latent problems that Netscape uncovered in my server, and I fixed them
> as fast as anyone could possibly hope for... I posted an announcement here,
> and most every day I reply to some message with the URL of the Windows
> HTTPD server's home page. My mail address is all over the docs, and I
> have no record of the gentleman asking me about the problem...
>
> I know, "quit whining and get a life!"... :-)
>
> -- Bob
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Marc Andreessen
Netscape Communications Corporation
Mountain View, CA
[email protected]