RL>> Actually I think it is standardised. I have read several references
RL>> to PLIP drivers, in various different places -- they're not common
RL>> but they do exist.

RL> There's an RFC (really.  This sounds like a joke, and
RL> actually it is, but it was given a real RFC number and is
RL> published with the rest of them) on something called "avian
RL> packet protocol", where the TCP/IP packets are printed out
RL> in hex and transported from site to site by carrier pigeon.
RL> This is described in mind-numbing technical detail.

So I thought, now who's pulling my chain?

 1149       D. Waitzman, "A Standard for the Transmission of IP
            Datagrams on Avian Carriers", 04/01/1990. (Pages=2)
            (Format=.txt)

Incredible.  One can only imagine what the PING turn around would be.

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