From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Michaelson To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Ligatures Message-Id: <20040422104744.2c87afc2@garlic> In-Reply-To: <004c01c42801$65c823b0$a4517d50@SOMA> References: <001501c427f4$8370fca0$a4517d50@SOMA> <20040422091225.3abee279@garlic> <002001c427f6$ae8cfd10$a4517d50@SOMA> <20040422094111.5dab7155@garlic> <003901c427fc$937bea30$a4517d50@SOMA> <20040422100941.13e805a3@garlic> <004c01c42801$65c823b0$a4517d50@SOMA> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:47:44 +1000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6839f79a-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 02:33:12 +0200 "boyd, rounin" wrote: >> But if you want to put up a policy proposal, ... > >policy proposal? just get out there and do it. generally, people don't like that. integers between 0 and 2**32 being a limited supply (like big eyed beans from Venus, oh my oh my) tends towards not wanting 'just do it' as a deployment engine. but hey, please feel free to advise your customers to simply walk the number-space until they stop getting ping responses, and use the address. I'm sure the upstream ISPs will love it. (did you know swiss telecom routinely announce random /8? They've been accepting 61/8 for some time now, despite it being an AP region allocation block.. oh, you have to love those chocolate gnomes.) > >> oh come on. Otemachi is full of progress. How can heated toilet seats >being >> sold next to KT66 valves not be progress? > >i see you've never participated in a japanese meeting >or if you have you know how to do it very well. Oh, I've been in several. Generally I get rolled. But then, I get rolled in the meetings with non-Japanese people too. You know, having read 'Eats Shoots and Leaves' I can't say I miss either the apostrophe/colon opportunities unused here, or for that matter the ligatures. be honest: when was the last time you actually needed that kerning? nroff just works. -George