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[dsrtao]

"The Complete April Fools RFCs" by Thomas A. Limoncelli and Peter J. Salus

http://www.rfc-humor.com

Compiled, really, not written. Salus is a UNIX/Internet historian, and TAL is an uber-sysadmin.

I believe Eliz used to know Salus, and TAL co-authored a paper with Ringel.

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Well, hardly complete. Where's our RFC on eu, electrocute user (warning, no-args pipes output to console), or the one Fred wrote on IP/frisbee? (Node distance depends on strength of transmitter, data loss depends on skill of receiver...)

[dsrtao]

We never got around to submitting those. However:

apt-cache show asr-manpages:
...
Description: alt.sysadmin.recovery manual pages
A set of humorous manual pages developed on
alt.sysadmin.recovery (don't treat them seriously!).
They document a set of really useful tools that for some
strange reason are not included in any implementation of
Unix. This includes such famous commands as lart, sysadmin,
luser, bosskill and others.
The authors recommend these man pages should be installed
on every system.

[dlevey.livejournal.com]

I used to know (Peter *H*) Salus also. _How_ we knew each other is a subject for a lot more time and a lot more beer.

[dsrtao]

While I independently know that the middle initial is an H., it not only escaped my typo-sniffer, but also that of TAL, who I cut-n-pasted from :)

[elizabear.livejournal.com]

(raises hand) I know! I know!

I used to work with PHS, and he hired my then-hubby because he didn't want to hire me away from his own friend, BZS.

It was very weird to hear lines drawn to you in parallel from jducoeur and PHS.

[dlevey.livejournal.com]

Ah, right, well then...
That was indeed a very *interesting* period in my life - in the supposedly-Chinese sense. I'm mostly better now.