Re: XDMCP on Windows 95

[Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>]

Okay, okay, but I didn't want to be that hard on Sylvain as he is a good 
contributor to our discussions... I just wanted to put up a friendly 
reminder that everyone, I more so than others, should sometimes tone 
down our messages.  That's all.

Harold

Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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