From: "Madeleine Yeh" <myeh at wap.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Pigeon Beats DSL
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:05:36 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

  I remember hearing that before faxes two hospitals used
to use pigeons to send information or blood samples to
each other.   This is a really cute idea.

On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:36:24 -0400
  Eric Jablow <ejablow at cox.net> wrote:
>
> On Sep 10, 2009, at 5:03 PM, Michael Walsh wrote:
>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8248056.stm
>>
>> mjw
>>
>
> Wonderful!  Somebody finally found a real application of
> RFC 1149, A Standard for the Transmission of IP
>Datagrams
> on Avian Carriers.  Also, look at its update, RFC 2549.
>
> See http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt, but
>notice the date
> it was filed. A Linux Users' Group in Norway
>experimented with
> this protocol in 2001; see
>http://linux.omnipotent.net/article.php?article_id=12239
> for details.  But this was the first practical use.
>
> Eric
>