The title for Really Faaking Common, number eight hundred and twenty one, is, SIMPLE MAIL TRANSFER PROTOCOL. In other words, it's the hodgepodge specification that describes a pop email protocol. Unix folks love RFCs and love to chant RFCs. Their slobbering mouth couldn't simply say mail protocol, hypertext protocol, etc, but had to say RFC xxx. They let RFCs dribble from their tongue as if it's the sweetest poem. Don't believe me? Mark your calendar: “Verify Xah's claim about RFC as Unixers' drivel” and observe. Go read newsgroup archives. You'll notice there is a correlation between the love of reciting the term and being a unix fan. It would take a full post or a book to justify a exposition of it in front of a unix crowd, but i can give you a synopsis below.
The title for Really Faaking Common, number eight hundred and twenty
one, is, SIMPLE MAIL TRANSFER PROTOCOL. In other words, it's the hodgepodge
specification that describes a pop email protocol. Unix folks love
RFCs and love to chant RFCs. Their slobbering mouth couldn't simply
say mail protocol, hypertext protocol, etc, but had to say RFC xxx.
They let RFCs dribble from their tongue as if it's the sweetest poem.
Don't believe me? Mark your calendar: “Verify Xah's claim about RFC
as Unixers' drivel” and observe. Go read newsgroup archives. You'll
notice there is a correlation between the love of reciting the term
and being a unix fan. It would take a full post or a book to justify
a exposition of it in front of a unix crowd, but i can give you a synopsis
below.
