Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

[H. Peter Anvin]

"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

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