Re: Humour RFCs

[Michael Hammer <mhammer at cisco.com>]

FYI.  The U.S. Army used carrier pigeons during WWI to
carry messages.  Worked quite well considering the working
conditions.

Speaking of which, why is it that references to the early years of the
Internet seem to downplay the fact that the ARPANET was originally
developed by the U.S. DEFENCE Advance Research Projects Agency
(DARPA)?

Mike


At 12:22 PM 9/13/2001 -0500, Jose Manuel Arronte Garcia wrote:
>     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!
>
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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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