P3D Re: the ">" (was barriers to entry)

["Gregory J. Wageman" <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Canter writes:

>So now we know how these symbols can creep in (perhaps logically but still
>unexpectedly) and don't always mean what they seem, can someone please
>translate those acronyms?

RFC = "Request for Comments".  Essentially, a proposed specification.  When
adopted, however, they don't change the name.

SMTP = "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol".  The ARPANET protocol for exchanging
mail messages.  It is specified by RFC 821.  The RFC for mail headers is
RFC 822.  Such exciting and stimulating bedtime reading may be found at

  http://www.sendmail.org/rfc/

>(Although its much more fun to make things up...I know that "RFC" means Radio
>Free Cleveland, but what kind of propaganda would we be broadcasting there?)

>I'm much too tired to think up anything for "SMTP" & "UUCP"....

SMTP = Small-Minded Talk Program.  Rush Limbaugh and the like. :-)

UUCP = "User to User Confusion Passing"*.  It refers to the conveyance and
proliferation of incorrect information on the Internet. :-)

	-Greg W. (gjw@xxxxxxxxxx)





(*Please note this is a joke, it really stands for "Unix-to-Unix CP".
 'cp' is the Unix 'copy file' command, and since UUCP originally copied
 files between Unix systems, it was by analogy called UUCP.)


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