Re: Humour RFCs

["Jose Manuel Arronte Garcia" <marronte at ver.megared.net.mx>]

    oh yes! some of them are REALLY obvious, like that one on the telnet,
but when I read about the avian carriers (I subscribed to this list on
mid-april) I thought they were for real!

Saludos.
Regards.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw at wittsend.com>
To: "John Stracke" <francis at ecal.com>
Cc: <ietf at ietf.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: Humour RFCs


> On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 06:26:04PM -0400, John Stracke wrote:
> > Jose Manuel Arronte Garcia wrote:
>
> > >or us people who don't have ths custom of the april's fool day, is
> > >very, but very unpleasant to find a joke instead of a serious network
> > >reference as in a RFC.
>
> > I suppose we could add a new category, Humor, and move the joke RFCs
> > from Informational to Humor.
>
> > Or, better yet, Disinformational.
>
> Oooo...  I LIKE that!  But I'm still not sure enough people
> would TAKE THE HINT.  I remember the day the RFC on the telnet
> subliminal option came out.  Way too many people took it seriously
> in spite of having a telnet option BYTE of 257.  :-/
>
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