From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 05 1999 - 06:20:47 CST
In <ylg0yl1v64.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
>> I think if you want to keep them, you have to give a reason why they
>> might be useful. I cannot see any _genuine_ application for them with
>> the present size of Usenet. Does anybody else want to keep them?
>It was discussed on inn-workers, and general consensus was that sendsys
>could go and good riddance, but we wanted to keep support for version.
>The idea was that the INN maintainers could have a registered public key,
>there could be an entry in control.ctl commented out by default that
>allowed version queries from that key, and people who wanted to allow the
>INN maintainers to gather statistical information about what versions of
>INN were in use could uncomment that line if they so chose.
Sure, but only the more enlightened and interested INN users would bother
to uncomment that control.ctl entry. Whereas what you would really like to
know is how many sites are still using version 1.0.0. But you are not
going to get that information.
I would like to hear if anyone else is interested in retaining this.
>If version is required to be authenticated, this should also produce
>responses only from INN systems with that line uncommented, not from other
>types of news servers.
I don't think any of these messages could be retained unless/until we have
authentication, so the most I would do at the moment is a pseudo-comment
in our text to review the matter when authentication happens.
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