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IP Replaces Avian Carriers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-flew-over-the-pigeon's-nest dept.

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."

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  1. All of the out of work pigeons..... by JayAndSilentBob · · Score: 5, Funny

    All of the out of work pigeons can go to work at Google now, making Google even better and faster. So much for that new-fangled Tahoma search engine.

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    Love,
    Jay and Silent Bob
  2. Not a joke! by nick255 · · Score: 5, Informative

    The amazing thing is this *isn't* an April's fool joke!

    Here's an older story about the same thing.

  3. Those Pigeons... by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
    Those pigeons must be exhausted after carrying volumes of such important missives as:

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    A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
  4. Re:Most places are not well developed. by pubjames · · Score: 5, Funny

    For people living in the U.S., it is easy to forget that most places in the world to not have a developed infrastructure.

    Funnily enough, I talking to someone about exactly the same thing earlier today when I was queueing to use the electric telephone at the Post and Telegraph Office, here in Spain. I was talking to an Australian who had spent the last four months on a sailship, poor man, on his way back to England to see his dying mother, who has the pox. I consoled him by telling him the rumours I'd heard about the United States of America - about rocket ships, robots, and flying cars, a place where children play happily in the streets without fear of nefarious wrongdoers, a place of happy and content people governed by the just and true. We both looked forward to a day when we could afford the passage to that great nation, a true paradise on earth.