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To: Robert Winchell who wrote (911)	5/13/1998 3:14:00 PM
From: Dragonfly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

I don't believe you were on the "internet" in 1988. I provided a number of examples of protocols that they have attempted to subvert. I can provide references to the session of IETF and other groups charged with managing open standards where MSFT has attempted to force the subversion of these standards. They have done this using money and threats. Luckily, these groups are generally resistant to such attacks. If you will really actually go read them, I will dig them up.... but given your lack of this knowledge, I think you are actually someone who came into the net relativly recently and are not well versed on its history or Microsoft's actions, and are therefore making me educate you by "proving" what is easily verifiable history. Just look at summaries if the IETF work on the RFCs having to do with MIME, POP, SMTP, PPP etc. Dragonfly