From: Florian Weimer (fw@deneb.enyo.de)
Date: Fri Apr 13 2001 - 18:28:58 CDT
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > I agree that is maybe a bit too strong, but I see no other way to word
> > it that does not give carte blanche to upstart implementors (a certain
> > Mr Gates springs to mind) to invent new "features" that turn out to make
> > Usenet unusable for everyone else. That has happened too many times in
> > the past.
>
> No standard can stop that.
Yes, even USERFOR is explicitly (and erroneously) overriding a MUST in
RFC 2015. :-/