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Original Post: RFCs make me want to smoke crack
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Paginating RFCs is fun, fun, fun. This is me using ctrl-enter in Word to pagebreak draft-ietf-xmpp-core-24: "On the other hand, they require two spaces after a period, which is vile, but is is actually just a symptom of the IETFs misguided insistence on publishing key documents in a format (66-line 80-column ASCII) that is outdated, unusable, and offensive. Outdated because it sneers at the ability of computers, for some decades now, to use proportional fonts, which have been shown repeatedly to improve the efficiency of information transfer from page to brain. Unusable because a substantial proportion of people, including me, can never get the bloody things to print properly with the right page breaks (well, they say, use the PDF of the ASCII... argh, words fail me). And offensive because it restricts its character set to that of English speakers. " -Tim Bray...
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