] "It was a completely internal issue," the spokesperson
] says. The problem had nothing to do with hackers or the
] security patch for MSN Messenger that Microsoft released
] earlier this week, she adds.

"We will screw up all by ourselves, thank you very much".

Hehehe.. I still remember when one of the NLUG folks renewed passport.com for them.

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