Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 3/23/84; site cbosgd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!cbosgd!mark From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: About nuking newsgroups Message-ID: <33@cbosgd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 18-Jun-84 22:06:04 EDT Article-I.D.: cbosgd.33 Posted: Mon Jun 18 22:06:04 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 09:43:00 EDT References: <247@down> Reply-To: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus Lines: 12 USENET is not software. USENET is a set of protocols for both machines and humans. Actually, Usenet is the set of machines that get net.announce. if these protocols were well-defined then we might eventually have programs that implement them correctly. The protocols ARE documented, have you read your doc/standard that comes with 2.10? It's also available on the ARPANET as RFC850. The whole point of documenting the standards is that hopefully someone else will write a wonderful implementation that takes 2K of memory and does everything better.