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1994-11-18 - pointers to IETF drafts

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From: strick – henry strickland <strick@versant.com>
To: perry@imsi.com
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Message ID: <199411182115.NAA10128@gwarn.versant.com>
Reply To: <9411182044.AA12940@snark.imsi.com>
UTC Datetime: 1994-11-18 21:27:52 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 18 Nov 94 13:27:52 PST

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From: strick -- henry strickland <strick@versant.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 94 13:27:52 PST
To: perry@imsi.com
Subject: pointers to IETF drafts
In-Reply-To: <9411182044.AA12940@snark.imsi.com>
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THUS SPAKE "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>:
# 
# Some of us are participants in the IETF, are even on the IPSEC working
# group, and are well aware of the pending work on IPng and IPv4
# security, and don't want Yet Another Copy of these things. If you
# insist, why not just note that there are drafts pending and not
# forward each of the announcement messages?

If he were to do that,  people would ask (or at least wonder)
	1.  just what is this?
and 
	2.  where can I get it?

It turns out the announcment is only two or three pages long,
and about 1/3 of it answers question 1, 
and the other 2/3 answers (for various clients) question 2.

I thought it was a very appropriate way of using the list --
a good comprimise between spamming and being silent.
I was able to quickly determine if I was interested (I was),
and use my favorite way to fetch it (since I'm not in metamail,
I grabbed the URLs and LYNXed them.)

		strick

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