From: utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: revised RFC733 syntax vs Usenet 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2137
Posted: Wed Jun  9 20:26:30 1982
Received: Wed Jun  9 20:26:30 1982

To quote from Mark's note:

	...it will become important to switch to this syntax to use
	netnews.  Sites on uucp will have to switch over or be left
	in the dust...

If Mark seriously hopes that most of Usenet is going to switch, there
had better be software available to cope with the new addresses THAT
WILL RUN ON PDP11'S!  And I don't mean just under 2.xBSD, either.  If
this is not done, we are going to be living with mixed addressing
conventions for a long, long time.

This is not to say I disapprove of the new addressing scheme;  I think
I prefer it.  But *I* sure don't have time to rewrite the software,
and software from outside isn't much use to me unless it will run on
a PDP11 under a pretty much vanilla V7/3.0/whatever.  And I strongly
suspect there are an awful lot of other people in the same boat.

In ARPAland it is perhaps possible to impose changes by administrative
fiat, but that just isn't practical on a net as diversified as Usenet.
It's not enough for it to be "important";  it has to be easy.