On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 04:45:31PM -0600, ScanMan wrote:
> Not only are these rules way too strict, there are so many I
> can't even remember them all.

If you want to get some historical perspective and reactions to
this RFC, search Google Groups from October 1995 on for "RFC
1855."  I think it would be an interesting short research paper
to see what kind of comments this RFC got and what revisions
might be made to bring it up to date.  

Nate
nate at techie.com  :P