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Re: RFC 7168 on The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances (HTCPCP-TEA)

2014-04-02 19:29:56
On 03/04/2014 13:01, John C Klensin wrote:

--On Wednesday, April 02, 2014 19:42 -0400 Ted Lemon
<ted(_dot_)lemon(_at_)nominum(_dot_)com> wrote:

On Apr 2, 2014, at 6:54 PM, Clint Chaplin
<clint(_dot_)chaplin(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
Will there be an option for not-tea?
No.   You can't have tea and not-tea.

At least until you answer the question "when is tea not tea" in
a satisfactory way.  For example, the stuff that comes
identified as tea but arrives in bags in many bad restaurants
(and others that should know better), is pretty clearly not tea
but it is less clear whether it is not-tea or not.

RFC 7169 describes a situation where TRUE and FALSE might mean the
same thing. I can't see, therefore, why tea and not-tea cannot
be simultaneously true (or false).

In the supermarket the other day, I was handed a free sample
of Red Bush Tea, which is clearly not tea. I do not know
whether it is not-tea.

   Brian

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