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I was just reading "TCP/IP Illustrated" and found that one of the ways to find all sources of RFCs is to send the following email:

To: rfc-info@ISI.EDU
Subject: getting rfcs

help: ways_to_get_rfcs

Tried it for fun -- how could I not when it's such a interesting/intriguing way of getting info? I mean, would you even think of sending an email to some remote address to get the ways to get rfcs? -- and got "Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently". I'm pretty sure it's long dead, but do you know when?

Yuriy Nemtsov
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The simplest way to figure it out is to look through the old RFCs... they're generally sequential in both numbering and dates (though there is admittedly some variation).

RFC2700 - Pub Aug 2000 Contains a reference to rfc-info@ISI.EDU

RFC2800 - Pub May 2001 Does not...

So without getting more granular, it was between August 2000 and May 2001.

HTH, \mike

Mike Pennington
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