Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 19:17:48 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> To: Lowell Gilbert <lowell@world.std.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FEP RFC Message-ID: <p0510013ab7022a19ca4c@[194.78.241.123]> In-Reply-To: <44wv8jpnw9.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> References: <9bfsv9$2vrv$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> <44wv8jpnw9.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net>
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At 11:05 AM -0400 4/17/01, Lowell Gilbert wrote: >> http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3093.txt >> >> (In case it doesn't sink in right away, look at the date on it.) > > I'm not sure that I agree with the "very, very, very dry" assessment, > at least in the large view. I'd actually call it very *pointed* > satire. I caught the humour when I first read it. Problem is, I fear that the humour is sufficiently subtle that many people *won't* get it, and will actually take that one at least semi-seriously -- thus perhaps actually worsening the problem that they were trying to lampoon. I wrote to Scott Bradner about this issue, and he responded that: we were told to make it look serious and maybe we over did it Anyway, this issue has certainly dampened my appreciation of the particular document in question, although I don't believe that it detracts from the humour of the overall series. IP over avian carriers, indeed. ;-) -- Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be> /* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net> */ /* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */ /* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */ /* */ /* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */ /* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */ dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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