Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!mimsy!oddjob!hao!boulder!sunybcs!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!A.ISI.EDU!PADLIPSKY From: PADLIPSKY@A.ISI.EDU (Michael Padlipsky) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: No echo from the NIC Message-ID: <8708102034.AA09028@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Mon, 10-Aug-87 16:15:34 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8708102034.AA09028 Posted: Mon Aug 10 16:15:34 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Aug-87 06:10:12 EDT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 25 Ken [and interested onlookers]-- I am appalled to have to report that I can't find "But My NCP Costs $X00 a Day..." despite the facts that 1) I could have sworn I'd done such a thing and 2) running my finger down all the lines of RFC 1012 should have confirmed it. Either it was done as a Project MAC Memo and didn't get out on the net, or it's hidden away under some other title (RFC 411, "New Multics Network Software Features," is a possibility, but I can't get through to the NIC to check up), or (shudder) perhaps there's an error of omission in RFC 1012.... Of course, the incident is immortalized, albeit in highly capsulized form, in The Book: Horror Story Number 5, pp. 85-6 (and corresponding Trailer Cartoon on p. 88); indeed, it seems to me I just cited it the other week in a somewhat different context here on the List. But that isn't as gratifying as being able to point to a 14 (at least) year old RFC (or MAC Memo, I guess). Perhaps needless to say, I join you in urging all readers of this List to be particularly cautious not to cause squandering of others' cpu cycles, even if we can't prove just how long we've been preaching that particular position. cheers, map -------