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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
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Posted: Mon Jun 18 22:06:04 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 09:43:00 EDT
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Reply-To: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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	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.