I doubt he left with anything. He was a management/sales type at MS. Too far removed to know much about that.

I don't know anything about Index.dat

Silver Lake? (ouch again? *g*) SALT Lake has some snow. Ski resorts have been open for six weeks. It was their earliest opening ever.

>You're correct (ouch - that hurts). It does say:
>chaired by the former chairman of Microsoft UK, David Svendsen
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>I wonder if Svendsen left with a list of "secret" ports that only core MS engineers are aware of. You know, ports that sniffers (spyblockers and adblockers) can't find!
>
>What's with that INDEX.DAT stuff anyway? Do you know what purpose that file serves?
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>Any snow at Silver Lake yet?
>