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From: ulmo@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Brad Allen)
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Subject: Re: LIST command and filenames
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Date: 25 May 89 14:22:13 GMT
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> As I said, perhaps LIST <file> is too general.  However, *something*
> is needed.  Any other suggestions?

Yeah.  NNTP is for, eh, let me unplug my ears:
Transfering Messages.
Ahh.  Well, turn these Messages into Objects, put on a few other
needed items (e.g. version control, object types, definitions of objects),
and suddenly your files are alive and humming.

The protocol should be redesigned, enhanced, etc., not turned into some
strange growth form where the middle is a bunch of dead but necessary
structure.  Remember, not everyone uses Unix.