Re: IPv8...

Padlipsky was a unique character. Incidentally, IPv8 suggests eliminating a
sort of vegetable/tomato mix.....

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On Fri, Apr 17, 2026 at 7:52 PM Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <
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> Being compared to Padlipsky is a considerable honour that I don't deserve.
> Sadly, I never met him.
>
> Regards/Ngā mihi
>     Brian Carpenter
>
> On 18-Apr-26 10:50, Bill Ricker wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2026 at 5:30 PM the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via
> Internet-history <[email protected] <mailto:
> [email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     *_The community should avoid wasting time on such proposals_*."
> >
> >     was most enjoyably Padlipsky-esque in the way his 1982 {{RFC874}}
> Critique
> >     of X.25 was
> >
> >     "*Conclusion*
> >
> >                *_**X.25 is not a good thing_*."
> >
> >
> > Speaking as The Literary Estate of MAP, I concur with Geoff that Brian's
> above new anti-v8 dicta is delightful and fits MAP's sense
> 'technico-aesthetic criticism'.
> >
> > (I rather like V8 myself, but being cheap, I usually just buy the
> store's-own generic tomato juice.)
> >
> > At least my new fibre-to-home router has IPv6, finally !
> >
> >   // Bill in Boston
> > // The Literary & Spiritus Estate of MAP
> >
> >
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