from the chilly north -- : IP: Microsoft e-mail service crippled

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>From: dakin@nationalpost.com
>At 4:14 PM -0500 on 12/30/99, Dave Farber wrote:
>>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said its free e-mail service
>>had been partially crippled because it forgot to pay a $35 bill. Some
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>Umm. Not to toot our own horn up here in the chilly confines of the 
>Canadian north, but we published this story a day before Reuters had 
>it  --- and we actually talked to Micrsoft and good samaritan Chaney. Read 
>all about  it at:
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>http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=991229/162113.html
>
>Have a great new year. I'm heading back into my igloo to cuddle up to my 
>shotgun and await the millennium madness . . .
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>David Akin / Technology Reporter
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