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Re: [rfc-i] Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ?

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Mon, 26 October 2020 21:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rfc-i] Poll: RFCs with page numbers (pretty please) ?
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On 2020-10-26, at 22:16, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Maybe it's because I was brought up on paper tape rather than punch cards,

Ah!  I used both in the 1970s, but more punch cards, and even my paper tape was mostly Z-folded not rolled…  That explains it.

> but I can't see why anybody cares about pagination in 2020.

Proof by lack of imagination :-)

Apparently these people do exist, and they have been speaking up with their use cases.

Grüße, Carsten

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