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Re: Postel's Principle and Layer 9 protocol engineering

Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Mon, 07 June 2021 03:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: Postel's Principle and Layer 9 protocol engineering
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On 6/6/21 4:05 PM, Fred Baker wrote:

> I’m curious what the average number of words are used in a FB post, and the average number of words are in a technical discussion. My belief is that FB would be difficult to use (as would Twitter) because comments are usually short.

FB comments are constrained to be short, as is the case for several 
other social media channels.   I've long ago formed the opinion that 
such restrictions are intended to favor ranting text-bites over 
thoughtful discussion.   I agree that these media are entirely 
inappropriate for technical discussions, including IETF discussions.

Keith

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