Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84 (WLS Mods); site astrovax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!astrovax!wls From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok) Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs,net.news.b Subject: Re: optimized network paths for news 2.10.2 Message-ID: <478@astrovax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 24-Oct-84 12:06:49 EDT Article-I.D.: astrovax.478 Posted: Wed Oct 24 12:06:49 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 25-Oct-84 03:27:26 EDT References: <427@cbosgd.UUCP> <472@astrovax.UUCP> <6110@mcvax.UUCP> Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics Lines: 18 >>I have a smart mailer but don't trust it unless I can see >>what it is doing. > Stick to yesterday's computers that still have all those wonderful lights, > displays and maybe loudspeakers that show you what it's doing.... > -- > Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam > ...{decvax,philabs}!mcvax!piet If one defines INTERNET in the news software even if one knows that the path to the site it is going to use is wrong there is no way to overide it. This is my fundamental objection to the INTERNET option of news. And yes I think that the removal of all lights from computers was a big step backwards. -- Bill Sebok Princeton University, Astrophysics {allegra,akgua,burl,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,noao,princeton,vax135}!astrovax!wls