From: Andrew Gierth (andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk)
Date: Wed Oct 06 1999 - 19:42:10 CDT
>>>>> "Brad" == Brad Templeton <brad@main.templetons.com> writes:
[...]
Brad> We won't. We've fiddled while Rome burned. Deja News, a
Brad> business built around USENET, seems to be mostly trying to
Brad> divorce itself from USENET. ISPs consider USENET serving a
Brad> burden they would rather be rid of. Spammers, trollers,
Brad> flamewars and just being too big have led large online
Brad> communities of USENET and onto web boards and their kin. Like
Brad> many, I'm ceasing to care.
That is, however, mostly irrelevent to the purpose of this group;
everything in the above paragraph is a matter of policy, not technical
standards.
Brad> Instead we've argued about how long a line can be, like it
Brad> matters. It doesn't.
It does matter if you're writing code; people are _still_ writing new
news servers and clients, and maintaining and extending old ones, and
as long as that is the case there is a need for technical standards.
-- Andrew.