Posted by Sanders Kaufman on 02/06/07 18:16

Rik wrote:
> Sanders Kaufman <bucky@kaufman.net> wrote:

>> It ain't easy. You have to be a super-gold-platinum fancy-schmancy
>> Microsoft partner. That means, at the very least, keeping a few MS
>> certified engineers and developers on staff, and paying a few dozen
>> thousand dollars for the passport license.
>>
>> After you do that... the code practically writes itself.
>
> The problem is they often change it. So there are (free) codes out
> there, but none reliable for a longer period of time.

That's why you need to be an MS "Partner" to do it.

They frequently mix things up a bit in order to shake off the
screen-scrapers. But when they do, they coordinate it with
their partners.

The better webmail services all do that.

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