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[Mark Foster]

>> Its still a practical solution for small businesses and home connections, 
>> though, as it allows you to use ISP provided services and retain some level 
>> of reliability over-and-above what you can achieve at home...
>> 
> That problem only relates to SBS, not the full MS Exchange, which doesn't 
> come with a POP3 connector. There are a number of third party POP3 connectors 
> for MS Exchange (full version) which may or may not suffer from this problem. 
> Also that patch is more than 2 years old, so it's a bit much to raise it now.

Yes Cliff. I was using it as an example of what 'could' happen.

At the time I wrote that article - and you can see its date - I was 
working for Xtra, who had a number of customers hit very hard. 
Interestingly the patch had already been out a few months when it suddenly 
did the rounds here as a major issue, indicating some severely lax 
patch-management schema amongst small-to-medium-sized businesses affected. 
And many other companies wound up paying through the nose.

(I've not worked for Xtra for more than 2 years now, so yes, it is a bit 
dated, but still interesting and somewhat illustrative of what can happen, 
or so I thought.)