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

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Tue, 27 October 2020 17:38 UTC

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> The argument that page numbers are harmful for *any* *purpose*
> *whatever* is not reasonable. ... A table of contents, in short.

<doh>  no can do.  might make document more useful. </snark>

and if you drop it on the floor, you can put it in the card sorter.  oh
wait.  :)

what i find shocking here is the "we know best, and you will not be
allowed attitude," an authoritarianism which seems to have become
more and more popular.

randy, going back under my rock
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