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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: RFC
Keywords: totally clueless new user
Message-ID: <1989Sep13.085325.1094@twwells.com>
Date: 13 Sep 89 08:53:25 GMT
References: <564@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu>
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In article <564@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu> davisp@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu (Palmer Davis) writes:
: Okay, I know this is going to sound rather basic, but hey, that's what this
: group is for, isn't it?  I keep seeing references to "the RFC" or "RFC XX.XX"
: here and there.  What exactly are they and, if they're something I'm supposed
: to be following, where do I get a copy of them?

An RFC is, if I recall correctly, a Request For Comment. (I've heard
people call these Requirements For Compliance, but I think that was a
wish or a grouse, not anything official.) These serve as standards in
the Internet community and elsewhere.

You can get them from various archive sites. Some of them are listed
in the comp.archives database; for a listing, send the following
message to comp-archives-server@twwells.com:

path davisp@skybridge.scl.cwru.edu
send help
send index

There is, I believe, somewhere on the Internet, the primary archive
for these; I really should know where (and expect to be educated
shortly :-) but don't know right now.

(As an aside, even though I started this newsgroup, there are lots of
little niggles like the above, or the $f trick for rn, that I don't
or didn't know. Even those of us who have been here a while can learn
things from this group.)

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