In college, I knew a guy who built a controller for a coffee maker that was
based on the coffeepot RFC. He could start up his coffeemaker (in the CS
lab) from a client on his computer (in the dorm) and have a fresh pot by the
time he made the walk. The coolest abuse of the campus network I've ever
seen, and he got an A for it in a class. :-)
-- Ben Doom
Programmer & General Lackey
Moonbow Software, Inc
: -----Original Message-----
: From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 4:11 AM
: To: CF-Community
: Subject: RFC's
:
:
: Erika L. Walker-Arnold wrote:
: > First of all, it continues to amaze me that Jochem is a walking talking,
: > RFC-quoting brainiac ... :)
:
: For all you know I could be just a very smart autoresponder :-)
:
:
: > Second, Jochem, have you read each and every one?
:
: Of course not. Most of them are not interesting, outdated, superseded and
: never come into the picture because they describe things that I
: never have
: anything to do with anyway.
: But I do know roughly what kind of information is in RFCs, and if
: I need to
: know more about those subjects I know where to look. I would consider the
: RFCs for HTTP (2616 and 2617) a must read for web developers, RFC
: 1855 a must read for everybody on internet and the rest is only
: interesting if you
: need it.
: Like if you write an SMTP customtag, you need to know RFC
: (2)821-2. If you
: are working with MIME types, you need to know RFC 2045-9. And although I
: have skimmed through a few dozen more, about topics as various as DHCP,
: mailing list management, POP and bulk mailing, those are the ones I
: actually know.
:
: But it helps that the national library of technology is hosted by my
: university, so I have easy access not only to RFCs, but also to more
: expensive documents like ISO standards, IEEE standards etc. It is
: something
: I am going to miss when I graduate (together with the 12.000 books on IT
: they have).
:
:
: > Third. There's really an RFC for "Quote's of the Day" !
: > ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc865.txt
:
: Sure. And it is not even an April 1st RFC like RFC 1149. And if
: you look at
: the assigned port number (17), you will see it is actually older as FTP
: (21), telnet (23), SMTP (25) and HTTP (80).
:
: Jochem
:
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