Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

[Chris Ricker]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, 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.

Don't be absurd.  It's a compile-time option that nobody, not even Dave
Miller, is forcing you to compile into your kernel.

> If ECN is so wonderful, why doesn't anybody actually WANT to use it
> anyway?

Lots of people do.  Lots of other people (such as, in this case, hotmail)
will never upgrade their software until the groundswell of complaints is
more expensive than their perception of the cost of upgrading....

later,
chris

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