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RE: How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793

Ross Callon <rcallon@juniper.net> Tue, 10 May 2011 02:17 UTC

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From: Ross Callon <rcallon@juniper.net>
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Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 21:47:33 -0400
Subject: RE: How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793
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This reminds me of what a colleague once said about government-run lotteries: "A tax on people who are bad at math". In this case the fools don't seem to be throwing all that many dollars away (at least not per document). 

Ross

-----Original Message-----
From: ietf-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Bob Braden
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 12:48 PM
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Subject: Re: How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793



> Bob,
>
> What you presumably remember, but others reading this may not,
> was just how many comments Jon made about the impossibility of
> preventing fools from throwing their money away.
John Klensin,

Indeed, I do remember. ;-)

Bob Braden.

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