From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 04:34:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 04:34:04 -0500 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:57348 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 04:33:48 -0500 Message-ID: <3A768A6B.78D72693@transmeta.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 01:33:31 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Transmeta Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, sv, no, da, es, fr, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Michael B. Trausch" CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Michael B. Trausch" wrote: > > On 29 Jan 2001, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > > He's keeping in mind who owns Hotmail. However, I think that's unfair > > to the Hotmail guys; all the ones I have ever spoken with have been > > very professional and genuinely concerned with standards compliance. > > > > I would also keep in mind, that Microsoft doesn't even run their *own* > system on Hotmail. Currently they're using Solaris, and from what I hear > they might be moving Linux in there fairly soon. > I don't know if that's true. The headers I've seen from hotmail users -- and Netcraft seem to agree -- indicate that they have migrated over to Win2K. I do understand this was a forced migration for non-technical reasons, and that they had quite a bit of problems. An interesting exception seem to be the hosts named ad.law*.hotmail.com, which Netcraft claim to be FreeBSD. -hp -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/