Re: (PM) Stable v.90

Larry Vaden (vaden@texoma.net)
Wed, 17 Jun 1998 13:12:03 -0500

Again,

where's the 3.7.2.c4 code addressing the problems in 3.6.2c3?

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Drassinower <scottd@cloud9.net>
To: Larry Vaden <vaden@texoma.net>
Cc: portmaster-users@livingston.com <portmaster-users@livingston.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 17, 1998 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: (PM) Stable v.90

|On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Larry Vaden wrote:
|
|> We are running b15.
|>
|> Our most common problem is aborted connections of duration under one
minute
|> (aborted at user request per the log); typically 8 or 10 customer
attempts
|> to get a connection to run as long as they wish; Karl Denninger of
mcs.net
|> may have more meaningful info as he has a much larger site.
|>
|
|So if this is a common issue for you, make a decision.
|
|b15 stays because you want V.90, and users get screwed if they can't
|connect to b15.
|
|or
|
|V.90 people have to wait a while, everyone else is happy, and it is highly
|doubtful that you will suffer serious revenue/reputation damage from the
|(possibly) pissed V.90 people.
|
|Everyone was warned ahead of time about the state of this software from
|Lucent and from other people's reactions on the list. Try it, if it works
|that's ok, if not, it will get fixed. No one is commanding people to run
|beta software at all, and certainly not if it is broken for you.
|
|If people are screaming at Lucent because they're losing money, they are
|screaming at the wrong people. The problem is that the immediate fix (no
|V.90, 3.7whatever) will make people who announced V.90 and now need to
|bail look silly. It's easier at that point to blame someone else instead
|of acknowledging the error.
|
|--
| Scott M. Drassinower scottd@cloud9.net
| Cloud 9 Consulting, Inc. White Plains, NY
| +1 914 696-4000 http://www.cloud9.net
|
|

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