JRS: In article <
[email protected]>, dated Sun,
24 Oct 2004 00:40:09, seen in Andrew Thompson
Aaaah.. (smiles) Back on slightly more familiar
territory. Try.. RFC 1855 - "Netiquette Guidelines"*
Section 3.1.3, point 1.
<
http://www.physci.org/rfc/rfc1855.jsp#3_1_3>
( ..and yes, Dr. J.S., I *do* specifically want you throwing
your IE 4 at that page, are there any problems? )
JRS, if you please.
On following that link, I did see the text to which you refer, briefly.
IE4 then died, leaving an unresponsive system. After a couple of
minutes or so, Win98 re-awoke, but with no IE windows showing (I usually
have several). In the meanwhile, I had dropped the dial-up by
unplugging.
I had waited until news/mail/FTP had ceased, and the line was idle; past
experience suggests that they would probably have continued - Turnpike
seems robust.
I did see that you had reduced accessibility by imposing your own choice
of font face and probably of size. I've set my browser up with what
suits me best.
I found a copy in my cache, edited out the Google references, and the
page then succeeded.
It is not a faithful copy of RFC 1855, since it contains added material.
That added material could have been placed logically-outside the rest,
before the genuine material and in some form of box. Standards should
only be copied unaltered. I grant that yours might be a copy of an
"official" HTML version of the original ASCII text.
The page contains HTML errors, according to my copy of W3's TIDY.
ISTM that it would be better to link to a recognised RFC site or a major
mirror such as Simtel, Demon or Garbo. My www-use1.htm includes :-
<p>A couple (untested) of RoW sites said to have most RFCs :
<a href="ftp://ftp.internic.net/rfc/">internic</a>,
<a href="ftp://ftp.uoknor.edu/rfc/">uoknor</a>; and a tested one :
<a href="
http://www.ietf.org/">ietf</a>,
<a href="
http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html">rfc.html</a>,
<a href="
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt">fyi28/rfc1855</a>.