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Re: Searching for a quote


From: Dave Taht <dave.taht () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:33:19 -0700

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Dave Taht <dave.taht () gmail com> wrote:
jon postel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel

Had he lived, email and netnews would have remained usable by mere
mortals and met the challenge of extreme growth and abuse. And ICANN,
and for that netsol, wouldn't have become the ugly morass they became.
Hell, even the IETF might have remained viable.

I have few heroes. He was one of them.


On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Jason Iannone <jason.iannone () gmail com> wrote:
There was once a fairly common saying attributed to an early
networking pioneer that went something like, "be generous in what you
accept, and send only the stuff that should be sent."  Does anyone
know what I'm talking about or who said it?



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Let's make wifi fast, less jittery and reliable again!

https://plus.google.com/u/0/107942175615993706558/posts/TVX3o84jjmb


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