Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

Stuart Lynne
2001-01-26T21:53:09Z

In article <980523239.30846@whiskey.enposte.net>,
James Sutherland <jas88@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Lars Marowsky-Bree 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

No, he just wants them to ignore it like they are supposed to do if
they don't know what it is.

>wonderful, why doesn't anybody actually WANT to use it anyway?

Because they are stupid and don't want to take the time and energy
to upgrade their systems.

Most ISP's have the generic rule, if it ain't broke, don't fuck with it.
Even the mighty microsoft learned just two days ago what happens if you
make mistakes changing routing information.

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