Re: Finding information

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On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 09:15:26AM -0500, Edward Lewis wrote:
> At 10:25 -0800 1/19/08, Bob Braden wrote:
> >  *>
> >  *> The RFC repository also has rfc-index.txt, which lists all the RFCs,
> >
> >And an RFC search engine... just type "1730" into the little box,
> >and it will magically return the information you want, including
> >links to the text and to any errata that may exist.
> 
> I just noticed this thread.  In late December I posted this to the 
> DNSEXT sleeping-WG mail list:
>   http://www.ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/namedroppers.2007/msg00769.html
> (and there are some follow ups).
> 
> The IETF document repositories are good at letting you find the 
> document you want if you know the document number.  But knowing the 
> document number is often the problem.


	having done stints in retail when i was younger, the most 
	difficult customers would come in the record store and 
	ask for the LP that sounded like "... dum, de dumm, dum,de..."

	the rfc-index is like unto a library card catalog. 

--bill
Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and
certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise).


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