From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Jun 08 2002 - 16:05:13 CDT
In <200206061840.g56IeeKK020684@lima.epix.net> "Forrest J. Cavalier III" <mibsoft@epix.net> writes:
>Then implementors could say that they are compliant with
>individual RFCs, instead of saying "Bah! who needs all
>that stuff?! I'm not aiming for compliance."
But the whole point about Usenet is that everybody has to work to the same
specification. There are no 'options' in Usenet. If some sites obey one
set of specifications and other sites obey a different set, then the whole
thing falls apart.
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