henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (04/23/86)
> >... I just wish > >they had spent more time making the existing Usenet standards work > >rather than breaking them and then complaining that all the Usenet > >sites needed to run routers. > > What existing Usenet standards are your referring to, John? > The ones that I am aware of support domain addressing and discourage the > use of the Path: line for return addresses. This includes RFC 976 as well > as the "Standard for the Interchange of Usenet Messages" by Mark Horton. The key word is "discourage", as opposed to "forbid". The problem is that the documented standards reflect a hope as to how the world will be one day, not the facts of how it is today. However, let us not flame too loudly about people refusing to do it our way; we get enough of that sort of bigotry from the Arpanet, without adding our own as well. The people who deserve to be flamed are people who build gateways between networks but can't be bothered translating one network's conventions into those appropriate to the other. -- Support the International League For The Derision Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology Of User-Friendliness! {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry