Re: "Microsoft Update" offers 898461 for XP SP3

"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
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Who asked you? Who says there's a limit?
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Stefan Kanthak wrote:
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http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt
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Given how that whole document (your link) is phrased - it is a suggestion...

As most RFCs are.

Example (first true paragraph):
"This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind."

Later example - likely what you are referring to in this conversation:
"If you include a signature keep it short. Rule of thumb is no longer than
4 lines."

( *note*: rule of thumb... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_thumb and
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Rule%20of%20Thumb )

So - a *suggestion* and a way to make things easier for those who pay for
bandwidth by the bit, perhaps. Standard or definite rule - no.
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Did *I* say it's a standard or definite rule?
It's a suggestion or proposition to thinking people.

My favorite part to quote of that document...
"October 1995"

If you think that RFC is outdated: I suppose you are very welcome to write
an update and submit it to the RFC editor.

I remember 1995. I think they had just started testing cable modems in my
area. No I can get Cable Modem, DSL, Wireless DSL, Satellite, etc... And

*I*, *I*, *I*
*YOU* might get high-speed high-bandwith connections ... at home, at work.
What about abroad?
Not ALL the people on this planet can get or have it anywhere and anytime.

many of those at about the same price (slightly more, one actually less in
some cases) as dial-up - some including dial-up as a 'backup'...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;DE;NGNetikette
explicitly asks to quote only the part you are referencing and to avoid
these horrible full quotes.

Stefan

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