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In article <6Ot5tCAWh4u4EwOe@rogers.demon.co.uk>, Mart Rogers
<mart@rogers.demon.co.uk> wrote
>In article <xIjf5EAC9wu4EwPe@thehulls.demon.co.uk>, Robert Hull
><Robert@thehulls.demon.co.uk> writes
>>In article <jhw1jBAZGlu4Ew$Z@rogers.demon.co.uk>, Mart Hugh Rogers
>><mart@rogers.demon.co.uk> wrote
>>>In article <slrn8bclqg.mu.malcolm@muir-et5.staff.demon.net>, Malcolm
>>>Muir <malcolm@demon.net> writes
>>>>
>>>>As far as I am aware we have no current plans to support W2K.
>>>>
>>>That seems very tactical and short term.  I don't blame you for not
>>>supporting it today or even next month, but to have no plans does not
>>>fill me with confidence.
>>>
>>Why don't you ask the authors to support it ?
>>
>>What good could come of Demon Internet getting involved in the tech
>>support of an Operating System that they did not write and over which
>>they have no control ?
>
>Presumably Malcolm meant that Demon Internet have no plans to support
>their service or products for customers using Windows 2000.  

On the contrary, I believe that MM meant *exactly* what he said. Demon
Internet stand out from the crowd in the way that they encourage people
who are not just on the latest point-and-click then hope that Mircosoft
know what they are doing software.

I have encountered some ISP's who specifically stated that if you are
not using W9x, then they will not offer you their "service". OTOH, Demon
have had IP support groups for people running everything from amiga to
various flavours of *nix passing by PC's running non Mircosoft OS's as
well as plug & pray 9x for as long as I can remember.

>Surely you
>don't expect Demon to support the OS, after all MS barely do.
>
No, but your contribution allowed the interpretation that you expected
Demon to support W2000, rather than just to support IP connections that
have the misfortune to be made via W2000. 

I am willing to admit that you did not intend this interpretation.
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