Re: ECN: Volunteers needed

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 10:10:29AM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Gregory Maxwell <[e-mail]> said:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Anyone have any friends at AOL? I wonder what the effect on these
> > non-conformant sites would be if AOL's proxy's became ECN enabled?
> 
> And AOL is sure crazy enough to "break compatibility with everybody" just
> out of courtesy to someone's friend call. 
> 
> Get real, it _won't_ happen unless they are forced to do so. Standard or
> not.

1) It's not everybody.
2) They certainly are.  Every once in a while they go through a period of
   silently dropping all email coming from hosts that don't have PTRs.
   This would be no worse.