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- >Everyone who participates in this newsgroup influences (to some
- >degree) the thoughts of the committee. We do this via USENET, which
- >is brought to you through the (dubious) miracle of UUCP. Doesn't it
- >seem a bit silly to "unstandardize" the software that helped us
- >develop the standard... :-)
-
- Perhaps you use UUCP, but I use DOD Internet protocols and
- don't wish to have UUCP forced on my environment.
-
- Network standards are a whole nother ball game and do NOT
- belong in the POSIX standard.
-
- Certainly a real-world computer system will benefit from
- standards other than POSIX, for example, graphics standards.
- That doesn't mean that POSIX needs to include such standards.
-
- Volume-Number: Volume 9, Number 53
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