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From: geoff@desint.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: .signature line limit
Message-ID: <308@desint.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Apr-87 15:59:45 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr  1 15:59:45 1987
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Reply-To: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Organization: Interrupt Technology Corp., Manhattan Beach, CA
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In article <6213@ukmj.ukma.ms.uky.csnet> sean@ukmj.ms.uky.csnet (Sean Casey) writes:

> If Usenet is to remain true to it's concept,
> these decisions need to be made by asking the people, not by a few who decide
> that this is the best way to do things.

Nothing could be further from the truth.  "A" news was written by two people;
they didn't ask anyone's permission and designed it largely themselves. The
same has been true of all of the subsequent major improvements.

As an example, Larry Wall does not generally ask the net's permission
to make changes in the way 'rn' behaves.  He perceives a problem, designs
a solution, and posts it.  Once in a while people don't like a change and
raise a storm.  Larry always responds to the complaints in a professional
manner, usually with a fix.  But net development would slow to a crawl if the
people who are doing the REAL WORK asked the net's opinion on every decision.
-- 

	Geoff Kuenning
	{hplabs,ihnp4}!trwrb!desint!geoff