[NOISE] Consolidation of threads ...

Matt Hinze mhinze at why.net
Mon Apr 15 00:29:16 PDT 1996


>OK, I have a proposal that consolidates two threads that have been
>discussed recently.  How about proposing legislation that mandates that a
>byte is now 9 bits instead of 8.  This would allow the ninth bit to be the
>decent/indecent bit, thereby solving all of our problems.

The question of decency is still a fundamental problem.  What is
decent? What is indecent?  Who decides?

Plus, wouldn't it be difficult to *legislate* an additional bit?   How
would one implement that into transfer protocols and the like?








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