On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 03:17:51PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 04:32:30PM -0800, Boz Crowther wrote:
> > Isn't Hotmail owned by M$ (has been for a while, actually)? So, it would
> > make sense that they run M$ OSes.
>
> Yes, M$ owns Hotmail. They have a bunch of Windooze Servers, but AFAIK the
> real work is done by FreeBSD machines.
Hmm. They may be cloaking, but here's the relevant header from their
email servers, first inbound, then outbound.
Received: from [204.182.55.144] by hotmail.com (3.2) with ESMTP id
MHotMailBC2B194F00C340043198CCB63790B1720; Sun Jan 14 08:05:35 2001
Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC;
Sun, 14 Jan 2001 08:08:55 -0800
And here's what their webserver says:
$ telnet www.hotmail.com 80
Trying 64.4.44.7...
Connected to www.hotmail.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 302 Redirected
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 16:10:21 GMT
Location: http://lc2.law13.hotmail.passport.com/cgi-bin/login
Regards.
