RFC 459

Network Questionnaires 📮✨

Okay bestie, so this is RFC 459 🎀. It's titled "Network Questionnaires," written by W. Kantrowitz at LL-TX-2 (NIC 14379), dated February 26, 1973. The original doesn't list a category, and it doesn't obsolete or update any other RFC 🧚.

In recent times, a steady stream of questionnaires has been showing up from the network community 📬. Each one is another distraction from more useful work, and the general annoyance level goes up a little every time 😭. Then the seven-page NCP questionnaire (RFC 460) arrived and pushed the annoyance level over the top 💀.

We're wondering if any of the questionnaire polluters has thought about how much time it takes to fill these out 🙈. That's especially true if you want to do a conscientious job and give reasonable answers to questions that are often only partly applicable 🌸.

It seems kinda presumptuous of RFC 460 to send a lengthy questionnaire with no explanation of why it exists, and then ask for a response in two weeks 💅. And then it dangles more questionnaires in the future like a carrot 🥕. Rude 🙃.

Sites with people who have nothing better to do than make questionnaires and other meta-work should realize that some sites run on limited staff 🫶. Those sites do have something better to do, and if they keep getting swamped with all kinds of meta-work, they'll get nothing done 😤🔥.

This material has not been reviewed for public release and is intended only for use with the ARPA network. It should not be quoted or cited in any publication not related to the ARPA network.

The machine-readable form of this RFC was prepared for the online RFC archives by Alex McKenzie with support from GTE, formerly BBN Corp., in 9/99 🌈:

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