From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Mon Nov 08 1999 - 05:26:57 CST
In <19991105171052.02514@main.templetons.com> Brad Templeton <brad@main.templetons.com> writes:
>There are many reasons, regardless of the current despammers. Why would
>you design something to do just one when it's trivial to have it do N?
>Even if you only use it do do one message at a time, it still works, but
>you have the option of more.
But creating a new control message, e.g. 'multicancel' is not "trivial".
You don't create new features in Netnews "just because it is possible".
You do it because a case had been made that some benefit will ensue.
>Ie:
> Control: multicancel
> <message-id>
>Is only trivially longer than
>
> Control: cancel <message-id>
>
> (blank body)
Yes, if we were starting from scratch we would probably do that, but we
aren't.
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