> This could have been handled a little better don't you think?

Depends. I have <insert reasonable number here> of years experience on Unix etc systems, as well as NT, and all I ever seem to get is "NT admins..blah blah.. crap..blah blah.. don't now anything..blah blah... get a real OS .. blah blah".

What pisses me off is the automatic assumption that if it's on an NT system, the Op knows nothing and the Unix admin knows everything. So far ths morning I have had more calls than I need doubting my professional ability, without a jumped up dick like this one adding to it.

What he said was wrong in just about every aspect. Get in and tell him he is wrong, if he had come in my suite banging on like that, the only thing that would have got to the hospital faster than him would have been the lights on the ambulance taking him there. He got of lightly.

I now return you to your scheduled programming, where the next idiot from the university blaming his inability to get mail from my network on my NT boxen rather than his flakey connection (which has is a documented history of being crap) gets smacked with a HotSwap backplane and shut in a comms cupboard.