From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 09:03:40 CDT
On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Nick Boalch wrote:
> On 26 Jul 2002, clive@demon.net (Clive D.W. Feather) wrote:
>
> > > It's not that it's difficult it's that news headers were specifically
> > > made to be like mail headers. They should be interchangeable and I will
> > > have no part in breaking that.
> >
> > Then I suggest you get RFC 2822 dragged into the 20th century. Or learn
> > that very few languages - not including English - can be correctly written
> > in ASCII.
>
> For what it's worth, I thoroughly agree. Our systems for *.answers won't
> currently deal well with encapsulated submissions -- but in that case they
> need to be upgraded in the cause of progress. I don't think we, as
> moderators, should try to hold back the development of Usenet purely because
> new standards will introduce some problems with existing software.
I'm not a moderator (was from about 88-92) so I have a question about
moderator platforms. Is it safe to assume that the majority of moderators
use either a UNIX-like o/s or Windows? It looks like it's time to
generate a new moderator tool, are these platforms the majority target?
-- -bill davidsen (davidsen@prodigy.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me