Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site down Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!down!north From: north@down (/*NOTREACHED*/) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: About nuking newsgroups Message-ID: <247@down> Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 11:10:13 EDT Article-I.D.: down.247 Posted: Fri Jun 15 11:10:13 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 16-Jun-84 04:05:33 EDT Organization: The Official Fun Machine of Princeton Univ. EECS Lines: 9 USENET is not software. USENET is a set of protocols for both machines and humans. if these protocols were well-defined then we might eventually have programs that implement them correctly. trying to limit the number of newsgroups or amount of traffic on the net just to appease certain braindamaged programs for which bug fixes are posted daily and to make life easier for trs-80s is not only silly, but impossible. stephen c north