[[blind-side] How about this?]

[Janina Sajka]

Fascinating, Ann. That's the version of that message that I sent
internally to a few folks at AFB. Looks like all the attribution traces
have been stripped?

Not that it matters ...


Ann Parsons writes:
> From: Ann Parsons <akp at eznet.net>
> 
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> Hi guys,
> 
> I find this extremely interesting. 
> 
> Ann P.
> 

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> From: Will Smith <wilsmith at iglou.com>
> 
> 
> Now for something completely different. Well, how about this?
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> Subject:  Do as I say, not as I do
> 
> >
> >    Microsoft protects own site with Linux'
> >
> > Microsoft has made a big deal out of asserting that Linux is not
> >       fit for the enterprise, reports TechWeb. But ironically, it
> >       says, the company is
> >          using Linux to help protect its servers against
> >          denial-of-service attacks.According to a post on the Netcraft
> >          Web site, Microsoft changed its DNS
> >             settings on Friday so that requests for www.microsoft.com no
> >             longer resolve to machines on Microsoft's own network, but
> >             instead are handled by the
> >                Akamai caching system, which runs Linux.Akamai runs a
> >                service to help boost Web site performance by caching
> >                copies of Web sites on many servers in
> >                   many locations. It can help defend against
> >                   denial-of-service attacks by spreading the attack
> >                   among many servers.
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175