I would tend to agree with Lloyd Regards Mark Paton CEO/DIR. Internet Network Eng Mercury Network Systems Limited +44 585 649051 http://www.mnsl.org "Mercury Network Systems - The Unstoppable Force" This e-mail is intended only for the addressee named above. As this e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information if you are not, or suspect that you are not, the named addressee or the person responsible for delivering the message to the named addressee, please telephone us immediately. Please note that we cannot guarantee that this message or any attachment is virus free or has not been intercepted and amended. The views of the author may not necessarily reflect those of the Company. -----Original Message----- From: Lloyd Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 February 2000 21:26 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Proposal: reclassify RFC2549, 1149 as historical I move we reclassify RFC2549 and RFC1149 as historical. Evidence to support this: 'end of an era' according to http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=000111464 113065&pg=/et/00/2/14/wpig14.html below. In particular, I don't think the QoS additions have ever been fully field tested; the WFQ proposal leads to observable instances of dropped tails during measurement. L. don't you just hate thinking about sending yourself valentines? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>PGP<http://www.ee.sur rey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/> ELECTRONIC TELEGRAPH, ISSUE 1725 Monday 14 February 2000 Spread of radio switches off political pigeon post By Jon Stock in New Delhi MORE than 600 Indian police carrier pigeons face early retirement after officials decided to replace them with radios. The decision to ground the birds before Wednesday's state assembly elections in Orissa, eastern India, marks the end of an era. They previously played a unique role in India's electoral process. They last saw active duty during last year's general election, when they carried messages to and from far-flung polling booths in the remote Orissa districts of Koraput and Dhenkanal. The messages detailed the law and order situation during polling. The pigeons are kept in 28 lofts throughout the state and will now become showpieces used solely for ceremonial purposes, according to Baikunthanath Das, Superintendent of Police (Signals), who looks after them. Their demise has been caused by what he called the advent of new technology. He said: "Even the most remote interior areas now have VHF radios." The service was the only one of its kind in India. It was started in 1946 during British rule by the state police's Signal Establishment, which bought more than 1,000 pigeons from the Indian Army after the Second World War.
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