[rfc-i] Doing something else on April 1

duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp ( Martin J. Dürst ) Sun, 03 April 2016 01:30 UTC

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Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2016 10:30:18 +0900
Subject: [rfc-i] Doing something else on April 1
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On 2016/04/03 05:47, Paul Hoffman wrote:

> FWIW, there was a pretty strong backlash in the tech community against
> April Fools "jokes" this year, growing from previous years.

Where, and why? Pointers appreciated.

Regards,   Martin.

> The RFC
> Series was one of the originators in our field of the jokes; maybe we
> could be one of the originators of not doing them and thinking of
> something else we can lead.