Re: Fwd: MS servers discriminate

[Mitch Stone <mstone@vc.net>]

In reply to Paul Rickard's message sent 4/21/98 3:03 PM:

>	This is true. A friend of mine works for a software distribution
>company with a lot of expensive software and equipment laying around,
>and one day he and some others didn't have anything to do for a while,
>so they tested some Microsoft servers with different browsers. IE gets
>the preference when the server is busy or slow, and when IE and Netscape
>both contacted the server at the same time, IE got the connection first
>almost every time.

Exactly what I've heard. But can it be documented? And does it happen on 
all Microsoft server sites, or has Microsoft tweaked theirs somehow?

   Mitch Stone
   Editor, Boycott Microsoft
   http://www.vcnet.com/bms 
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