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[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Fri, 20 Dec 2002, at 4:25pm, gnhlug at sophic.org wrote:
> No, it really isn't.  You can claim that the original Berkeley
> implementation is the defacto standard if you want to ...

  I can, and I do.  Most of the Internet got built that way ("rough
consensus and working code").  Much of it still is.

> ... but other historical implementations have a variety of variations, and
> are widespread.

  I am not responsible for non-conforming implementations.  And, you will
note that I did go on to rant about said non-conforming implementations
immediately after.  :)

> This will assuredly irritate some portion of your user base ...

  Hey, nobody said anything about pleasing users.  :-)

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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