Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!chuq From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Initial results from version control message Message-ID: <35750@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 17 Oct 89 22:39:35 GMT References: Organization: Life is just a Fantasy novel played for keeps Lines: 21 > > 2.9 4 (6/26/82) > There are still sites that are running seven year old software that hasn't > broken. eek.... >That made me gulp, too. How do they deal with moderated newsgroups? >(I suppose they don't, of course.) What do they do without >net.general around, since it was special-cased with net.followup? The >questions raised by 2.9 still being out there are somehow depressing. What I want to know is what happens to those systems when all those files end up in a *single* directory, since 2.9 didn't have the tree structure in /usr/spool/news..... -- Chuq Von Rospach <+> Editor,OtherRealms <+> Member SFWA/ASFA chuq@apple.com <+> CI$: 73317,635 <+> [This is myself speaking] Anyone who thinks that the argument over {sci,rec}.fishies is about group names doesn't understand the system.