From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jun 11 2002 - 04:14:16 CDT
In <200206101153.g5ABrQPD022911@bean.epix.net> "Forrest J. Cavalier III" <mibsoft@epix.net> writes:
>The modest proposal might not work for other reasons, but
>"Usenet will fall apart" is not one of them. If you argue
>that, then you must also accept that Usenet falls apart
>when a handful of sites comply with the new standard,
>while others still do not. Do you believe that to be true?
Well "Usenet will fall apart" might be an overstatement, but my point was
that it is in the nature of Usenet that there is little purpose in
introducing an extension unless the intention is that it is to be
adopted universally as soon as is practicable, which rather rules out the
possibility of an extension that is "optional", and expected to remain so.
Articles propagate uniformly both to places where the extension is
implememnted and where it isn't, and followups come back from both kinds
of places.
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