From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Sun Jun 09 2002 - 14:43:49 CDT
Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
> 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.
Hardly. There is a whole bunch of stuff in the current draft that a site
can happily not comply with without causing anything at all to fall apart.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>