Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!bionet!turbo.bio.net!lear From: lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Usage of Supersedes Message-ID: Date: 22 Jul 90 22:15:18 GMT References: <777@hades.ausonics.oz.au> <15688@bfmny0.BFM.COM> <1990Jul21.054016.10409@looking.on.ca> <3722@auspex.auspex.com> <1990Jul22.085726.22462@looking.on.ca> Organization: GenBank Computing Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 11 It surprised me that Supersedes is had not been widely implemented. It was initially hoped that the usage of Supersedes in the map data would encourage people to move to the new software before their spool directories filled. That didn't happen, because most of the uuhosts like scripts copy off the maps from the spool, with expiring deleting them right behind uuhosts. Amanda may have a very good point about creating a ``USENET II''. -- Eliot Lear [lear@turbo.bio.net]