On Wednesday 31 May 2006 16:22, Ian C. Blenke wrote:
> At one point I _swear_ *.0 was used as a broadcast, and was common on a
> number of IP stacks.
Hmm interesting, I never ran into it. But with MS anything is possible. They
tried to take over the Internet with their bogus standards, once the cognited
on the Internet that is. Fortunately we did not have a bunch of fools running
it and they did not have enough foothold at the time to be able to just make
people do it their way by incorporating it into windows.
A bunch of saboteurs if you ask me. <new tangent> The drive of these people to
undermine the whole computer world just for a buck, well many bucks, but
never the less. Adopt and alter. Got some great cross platform tool working?
We'll take it and make sure it only work for us! </>
Obviously one could do it any way one felt like, but as you point out, that's
what standards are for.
--Steve Szmidt
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