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From: zweig@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu (Johnny Zweig)
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Subject: Re: Comment on RFC1124 (?)
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Date: 28 Sep 89 03:06:58 GMT
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It seems the best thing to do is to put PostScript stuff _somewhere else_. I
like being able to do "lpr RFCxxx" and have the right thing happen -- and I
imagine people who don't have PostScript printers around would be even more
adamant on the point.

It seems that complicated drawings ought to go into some kind of companion
document that would be referenced (with good old [1]...[n] in plain ASCII)
in the RFC-proper.

I think that one can go a long way with  - + | _ / \ < and >. Certainly
anything that can't be described without a comlicated drawing ought to be
rephrased. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a standard should be
clear enough not to need thousands of words.

-Johnny Keep-it-simple