Re: SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'

William Allen Simpson wrote:

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/...

Update needed for RFC 1149 (1 April 1990), A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers

Truly practical with today's storage media... if the Wiki story is correct, it was a 4Gb memory stick (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet under "Usage Examples"). There was the old "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. —Tanenbaum, Andrew S." but then a pigeon would have trouble hauling 9-track tapes :-) Jeff