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The www is fine. TBL shouldn't be blamed for the horrible mess that it turned into as people kludged it to do things stupidly and inelegantly.

Yenc binaries on Usenet are stupid an inelegant yet petabytes of stuff have been shifted around on Usenet servers.

Humans are creative and capable of trashing almost any RFC no matter how well written it was.

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