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.