From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Mon Feb 02 2004 - 01:02:15 CST
J B Moreno <planb@newsreaders.com> writes:
> On 2/1/04 7:12 AM, Bruce Lilly at <blilly@erols.com> wrote:
>> That's unacceptable because it breaks backward compatibility with IMAP.
> There *is* no backward compatibility with IMAP -- news predates IMAP by a
> considerable margin.
That was a complete non sequitur.
Usenet followed a particular protocol. Another protocol relied on
guarantees provided by that protocol to interoperate. Now, changes to
that protocol will cause backward compatibility difficulties. The
chronological order of the protocols is irrelevant.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>