Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!uwm.edu!rpi!sci.ccny.cuny.edu!phri!roy From: roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: rfc's by name, not by number Message-ID: <1990Apr13.130507.16052@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 13 Apr 90 13:05:07 GMT References: Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City Lines: 11 In emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes: > instead of collecting them by number these ones have sensible names, > i.e. "internet-numbers", "avian-carriers", "rip", "ftp" etc. Isn't that what index files are for? Is it really that hard to get the latest index file and grep for the subject you want? -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "Don't Worry, Be Happy"