Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!rick From: rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Patch dates or Patch Numbers Message-ID: <64033@uunet.UU.NET> Date: 17 Aug 89 21:28:59 GMT References: <1989Aug9.164003.20669@utzoo.uucp> <6717@dayton.UUCP> <1989Aug17.171000.23302@utzoo.uucp> Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA Lines: 9 In article <1989Aug17.171000.23302@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: > Particularly for the news transport subsystem, where specs are quite solidly > fixed by backward-compatibility constraints, we see no fundamental reason No matter what one thinks of Cnews, it is is not backward-compatible. Cnews is another transport system (just like notes is). it may be better or worse, but it clearly paid no attention to backwards compatibility.