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Re: A Puzzle!
Thanks for the information as well Tim.
"Tim Slattery" wrote:
> "~BD~" <BoaterDave@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>
> >I have, though, always assumed that Microsoft funds the cost of running the servers. Can you confirm
> >that that is so? I did once question why there are two active servers - news.microsoft.com AND
> >msnews.microsoft.com. A historical 'quirk' I believe I was told.
>
> The servers belong to Microsoft, they contract out the actual running
> of them. There's only one server address, both domain names resolve to
> the same IP address.
>
> --
> Tim Slattery
> MS MVP(Shell/User)
> Slattery_T@bls.gov
> http://members.cox.net/slatteryt
>
Thanks for the information as well Tim.
"Tim Slattery" wrote:
> "~BD~" <BoaterDave@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>
> >I have, though, always assumed that Microsoft funds the cost of running the servers. Can you confirm
> >that that is so? I did once question why there are two active servers - news.microsoft.com AND
> >msnews.microsoft.com. A historical 'quirk' I believe I was told.
>
> The servers belong to Microsoft, they contract out the actual running
> of them. There's only one server address, both domain names resolve to
> the same IP address.
>
> --
> Tim Slattery
> MS MVP(Shell/User)
> Slattery_T@bls.gov
> http://members.cox.net/slatteryt
>