IP Replaces Avian Carriers

m0rningstar writes: "In the spirit of the IP over Avian Carriers RFC, India is considering replacing a carrier pigeon network with e-mail according to this story at the BBC."

Comments

Wow.

[Steev]

April fools people. Go back to sleep. I'm amazed at the lameness of some of the jokes that happen on April 1st. A local radio station tried to convince people that there was an easter parade going on...at 7 o'clock in the morning...in a torrential downpour. I absolutely could not believe that some people would fall for it.

Maybe I'm just jaded and cynical, but give me something not only original, but believable.

Re:Wow.

[damiangerous]

I'm amazed at the lameness of some of the jokes that happen on April 1st.
Except it's not a joke. Here's an old story from February of two years ago. But good job on the insulting airs of cynicism from someone so afraid they might look the tiniest bit silly by falling for a joke that feel the need to preemptively insult others. You've fallen for the best joke of all, sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction.

Carrier Pigeons for time when the phones are down?

[Isomer]

They use carrier pigeons for when phones, power and radio are down, for example during hurricans.

How exactly do they propose that email is going to help in this situation? If they have no phones, power or radio, how are they connecting to the Internet?

BBC no humor?

[gruntvald]

You clearly don't remember the spaghetti trees news report ....

Re:Heh.

[PinkStainlessTail]

this is so weird, it might actually NOT be an April Fools' joke...

I'm thinking this one was put up today as a sort of "Meta-Fool". It's an April Fools joke precisely because there will be lots of "It's just a stupid joke" posts on this thread, when the story is actually true. Very clever, good social engineering (knowing the geek penchant for scepticism and knowitallitis).

Maybe I'm giving the eds too much credit, tho'.