Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

From: Steven N. Hirsch (shirsch@adelphia.net)
Date: Thu Jan 25 2001 - 21:55:00 EST


On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote:

> "test"? I know exactly whats going to happen, and unless folks like
> hotmail.com and others get their act together I'll certainly end up
> removing *@*hotmail.com from the lists by the end of that day.
>
> That is the whole point of this experiment.
>
> Alan plans on doing similar things to ftp.linux.org.uk and other
> machines he maintains.
>
> The behavior of these sites is simply intolerable, and I think
> this is a wonderful way to get our point across. I cannot see it
> being argued that these entities have not been given enough notice
> of the problem. If they cannot be bothered to get fixed an issue like
> this after nearly half a year, I cannot be bothered to feel bad for
> them when all users at their site lose access to the lists.

Adelphia Communications just blew off my problem complaint (they have a
router between me and the POP server that DENY's ECN), telling me that
they "..won't upgrade the router on the basis of one complaint on a Linux
(read: non-supported by them) system...".

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