Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

Alan Cox
2001-01-31T16:45:24Z

> In the UK two of the largest ISPs - BT Internet and Freeserve - have
> ECN-blocking
> firewalls. So does theregister.co.uk for that matter. If I enable ECN
> I lose
> the ability to send emails to a huge percentage of the people on the
> mailing lists
> that run on my machine.
>
> These ISPs will *not* change simply because 1% of Linux users complain

I suspect you do the freeserve guys a great disrespect (they host
ftp.linux.org.uk for one thing). If you've got traces showing what freeserve
stuff is mishandling ECN I'll have a chat with the right people

The Register can probably also be persuaded easily enough (make fun of them
on other sites as they make fun of incompetent IT sites and wait..)

BT well, there are reasons I don't even have a BT telephone line in my house.

Alan