From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!houti!lime!burdvax!coltoff Newsgroups: net.followup Title: Re: small gripe Article-I.D.: burdvax.133 Posted: Wed Sep 1 16:53:01 1982 Received: Sun Sep 5 02:22:12 1982 References: houti.146 It would be impossible to put the article in the current directory. Suppose you were snopping around in /usr/src/cmd and then did a readnews. To save things in /usr/src/cmd would 1) clutter a system area with user files 2) require that all people be able to write to /usr/src/cmd ( as well as anything else). A user is more likely to keep his own directory area clean. If he has files scattered from from pardon my spasms /usr to /usr/spool/mail to /ucb/bin he is not likely to remember where they are or delete them when he is done. I think it should be kept the way it is.