[mindcrime]

Maybe HN should send homing pigeons when a link gets popular?

Finally! The perfect application for RFC-1149[1]. And people said it was just an April Fool's Day joke!

[1]: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt

[vidarh]

RFC 1149 has been implemented: http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149/

Ping times were rather atrocious.

[daeken]

Alternatively, the ping times were great considering that pigeons were the transport.

[mkr-hn]

The complaints from people at each hop were also a major issue.