From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!alice!alb
Newsgroups: net.mail,net.news
Title: Re: How do we get people to update software?
Article-I.D.: alice.1494
Posted: Mon Feb 14 15:38:08 1983
Received: Wed Feb 16 07:17:16 1983
References: uw-beave.349

That is an extremely obnoxious approach to take to get people to
update their software.  Has it ever occurred to you that maybe
some people don't WANT to go to B news?  There are some sites
that do run current version of A news and they are quite happy
with it.  Why force them to change?  If you do make the kind of
change you suggest, I thin what will happen is that the 'new'
network (that with the billions of little groups) will be the
one to quickly die, not the old one.