wombat@uicsl.UUCP (07/26/83)
#R:utcsrgv:-180100:uicsl:7800002:000:1196 uicsl!wombat Jul 25 16:52:00 1983 Before you try and make everyone follow your standards, keep in mind that, believe it or not, not everyone has access to a working nmail clone, not everyone uses 2.10 (notes gives no info about sender except for name and site -- no path, and more and more sites are running notes), and not everyone has to read this at 1200 baud. I'm sorry it takes you so long to read all this, but new sites are being added to the net all the time, and putting up net mailers usually comes after writing accounting programs, transfering applications software from whatever machine the place had before getting a UNIX machine, learning UNIX, etc. We used to have a version of nmail, but the first time someone tried to update the list of sites it screwed up, and no one has bothered to do anything else with it. If I want to mail something to someone, I often have to try and guess a working path from the USENET logical map that Karen Shannon puts out. The more help I get from someone's note, the better my chances of communicating with them. And if you think you see too many notes now asking for pathnames, just wait till people don't sign notes with pathnames. Wombat pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!wombat