Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site mako.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!orca!mako!davecl 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 Article-I.D.: mako.171 Posted: Sun Jun 24 01:24:13 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 01:59:18 EDT References: <1966@utcsstat.UUCP>,<545@opus.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 20 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