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From: davecl@mako.UUCP (Dave Clemans)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Re: nuking newsgroups (and memory constraints)
Message-ID: <171@mako.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 24-Jun-84 01:24:13 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 24 01:24:13 1984
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A lot of this discussion is getting off the point.

What is important is that the "official" USENET protocol not require
such things as megabytes of paged virtual memory, and that implementations
of that protocol exist to demonstrate that fact.

If other implementations exist that do use some of the special features
of the local environment (say to experiment with different/better user
interfaces) well and good.

There's two sort of "cliche" points that can illustrate this point.

	I don't care what editor you use as long as the files it writes
	can be used by my editor (and vice-versa).

	I don't care what mail interface, transmission and receiving systems
	are used by you as long as they don't do something that interfers
	with mine (and vice-versa).

dgc