Post #1565329
2026-03-17 07:01 UTC
@mnot heh. In my head the conversation went:
Wouldn’t it be worth caching them all offline rather than linking to the site? There can’t be that many and they’re plain text
Just how many RFCs are there anyway?
There are TEN THOUSAND???
A zip file of all of them, just as text, is half a gig??
OK now I see why mnot did it this way :-)
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@bkardell@toot.cafe 2026-03-17 12:06
@sil @mnot so like, twice the size of a page in a few years? 😜😭
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@aspragg@ohai.social 2026-03-17 23:00
@sil @mnot Wait, half a gig? I thought Debian had packages for those, and they weren't anywhere near that big, were they? *tippy tappy* https://tracker.debian.org/news/1412242/accepted-doc-rfc-20230121-1-source-all-into-unstable/ > 461535648 doc-rfc_20230121.orig.tar.gz 461MB zipped. Huh. I guess my memory is a bit off then. Wait, what about historically? *tippy tappy* https://tracker.debian.org/news/457888/installed-doc-rfc-20010331-1-all-source/ > 44166426 doc optional doc-rfc_20010331.orig.tar.gz 44MB. That's a bit more sensible. Quite an increase over the last... 25 years? Oh, OK. Yeah, that's a long time.