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Re: borderline offtopic about examples

2008-07-08 09:58:51

Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:

Examples should be realistic, in the sense that they 
remind readers of the real thing. "foo.example" doesn't
strike me as a good example of a fully-qualified domain
name. ("foo.arpa" isn't too good either, now that .arpa
is long forgotten.)

At some point it's a matter of taste, yet another "Alice"
and "Bob" example can be also surreal, if they don't do
anything remotely related to crypto.

Some days ago I counted the foos and bars in RFC 2821:
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=3092>

 Frank