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: <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> <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