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I got an email from some firm saying

We are the UK's experts in Open Source and would value the opportunity of understanding how we can help you take full advantage of Linux. Give us the opportunity to discuss your current IT infrastructure with you and we will provide FREE OF CHARGE a full and comprehensive scope showing where Linux could be used to improve your system and massively reduce your licensing costs.

Of course the mail headers included

X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106

I found a bunch of curious 404 errors in the server log like this:

194.130.56.116 - - [17/Jan/2003:11:33:36 -0500] "GET /photos/real.css HTTP/1.1" 404 549 "" \
  "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0)"

All gets for real.css from IE and always with an empty referer. The only place I include this css file is in /css/main.css where I do an @import url("real.css"); which I would assume would always look for the file in base directory of /css/. Unfortunately IE has different ideas here. I would guess it probably happens when printing given how often it happens and which pages it shows up on. It happens to people who are actively viewing pages and not coming back to the site after having quit and restarted the browser. I just changed the import to use the full path but once again I am annoyed to be doing something stupid to work around a bug in IE.