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Re: Fwd: Re: IP: Microsoft breaks Mime specification

2002-01-23 09:30:03
At 09:18 AM 1/23/2002 +0100, Randy Bush wrote:
let's talk about the format of rfcs in this thread too, so we can bundle
the bad ideas we seem to discuss periodically every six months or so and
get them all out of the way quickly.  i think they should be in the new
microsoft mime format and a subsidiary organization should be chartered to
certify their compliance.

damn.

that is pretty darn efficient.

perhaps we need to start a new IANA numbering series, for Bad Ideas that have come up before, so that we can simply respond with a number that points to an explanation of the reasons the idea is bad.

This, of course, is a variation of an old joke about a new guy in prison, but might actually be helpful.

d/


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