Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site decuac.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!decuac!avolio From: avolio@decuac.UUCP (Frederick M. Avolio) Newsgroups: net.news.group Subject: Re: elementary posting rules Message-ID: <677@decuac.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 12:30:29 EST Article-I.D.: decuac.677 Posted: Wed Nov 6 12:30:29 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Nov-85 05:57:56 EST References: <202@bambi.UUCP> Organization: ULTRIX Applications Center, MD Lines: 14 In article <202@bambi.UUCP>, mike@bambi.UUCP (Michael Caplinger) writes: > It seems a simple matter to add (or in case 2, subtract) the needed > functionality from the user software. Wouldn't this help reduce useless > traffic? Mike, take a look sometime at the list posted from Seismo of "Known Versions of News" in existance. People are running versions of news that are 3 years old and 3 versions old. (For example, by the header I see that site bambi runs news 2.10.1 created on 6/24/83. 2.10.2 has been around for over a year now.) Software changes for enforcement of rules will never work since there is no way to make people install them. (People don't, even when there are free and better versions available!)