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ietf-nntp Why are RFCs hard formatted?

"J.B. Nicholson-Owens" <jbn@mystery-train.cu-online.com> Mon, 30 September 1996 18:59 UTC

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From: "J.B. Nicholson-Owens" <jbn@mystery-train.cu-online.com>
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Subject: ietf-nntp Why are RFCs hard formatted?
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Thanks for releasing the first draft of the NNTP spec.  Out of curiosity,
why are RFCs distributed with hard page formatting, even RFCs that don't
have tables of contents or internal references to pages?  Is there a place
where unformatted RFCs can be downloaded?

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