Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Who pays the bill?
Message-ID: <1990Aug2.162214.24074@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <Jul.30.17.57.18.1990.9079@turbo.bio.net> <3275.26b54aab@mccall.com> <1990Jul31.211125.11451@mlb.semi.harris.com> <818@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <1990Aug1.201232.23136@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1990Aug1.230858.3264@iwarp.intel.com> <EMV.90Aug1202214@urania.math.lsa.umich.edu> <1990Aug02.040424.20586@looking.on.ca>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 90 16:22:14 GMT

In article <1990Aug02.040424.20586@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
>I think that new versions should do the right thing and drop the user name
>from the path and make it unusable as a reply path.  It's tough, but USENET
>can't stay backwards compatible to A news all its life.

Well, it's a simple choice:  you can enforce your ideas of purity and
cleanliness, at the price of shafting a lot of users who have primitive
software and can't do anything about it, or you can leave things the
way they are.  I'm not sure what the change is supposed to buy us.
-- 
The 486 is to a modern CPU as a Jules  | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
Verne reprint is to a modern SF novel. |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry
