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From: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
To: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
Cc: "Kopp, Jeffery" <Jeffery.Kopp@COMPAQ.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 10:26:48 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: Please add me to the kernel change distribution list
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On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Matti Aarnio wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:29:53AM -0600, Kopp, Jeffery wrote:
>   Can't.  COMPAQ is one of those companies which have covered their
> incoming email systems with firewalls rejecting connections with IP-
> header option bits that were "reserved, set to zero when sending" for
> first about 20 years, but which now got other specification.
> (The firewall makers made an error and tought it to mean: "reserved,
>  must forever be zero".)

to me more precise, the new specification is now an official draft, still
subject to possible revision, but the folks running vger have decided they
want to force the internet to accept it in it's current form so enabled
this feature.

David Lang

> See:   http://vger.kernel.org/   for pointers to info.
>
> You can initiate a connection towards vger, but vger can't initiate
> a connection towards you!
>
> I repeat:  At present you CAN NOT receive email from vger.kernel.org.
>
>
> /Matti Aarnio
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