Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

David Ford
2001-01-26T21:22:03Z

"Randal, Phil" wrote:

> James Sutherland wrote:
>
> > Except you can't retry without ECN, because DaveM wants to do
> > a Microsoft and force ECN on everyone, whether they like it
> > or not. If ECN is so wonderful, why doesn't anybody actually
> > WANT to use it anyway?
>
> And there's the rub. Whether ECN is wonderful or not, attempting
> to force it on everyone, whether they like it or not, whether
> (for whatever reason) they are able to upgrade their firewalls
> to handle ECN appropriately or not, is a recipe for a "Great
> Linux Public Relations Disaster".

Nobody is forcing you to use ECN, it is a compile time AND runtime option.

-d

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