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Re: Rivest's S-Expressions I-D no longer found

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Sun, 21 May 2023 18:35 UTC

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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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It appears that Marc Petit-Huguenin <marc@petit-huguenin.org> said:
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>https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Sexp.txt is no longer reachable.  This is a document I use often in my work so I'd like to have a more stable reference, like an Informational RFC.
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>Is there any interest in trying to do that?

The Internet Archive says it was last seen over a year ago in January 2022.

I concur with the suggestion to get MIT to resuscitate it, but in the meantime,
here's a copy that's not going away any time soon:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220113221331/https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Sexp.txt

R's,
John

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