On Sep 28, 2004, at 11:27 AM, James Giles wrote:
> As I heard it, one of the reasons given for lifting the ban on
> list directed to internal files was that vendors claimed it was
> more trouble to enforce than to just go ahead and do it.
That's probably one of the reasons, though considering that there was
no requirement to enforce it, that wouldn't have been the big driver.
I'd say that was more of a reason why there wasn't any vendor
resistance (along with the fact that many of them already allowed it by
then anyway).
But I'm confident that the main reason was all the users that kept
asking for the feature.. or just tried to use it, not realizing that it
wasn't legit. That's the push. I'd call the implementation issue more
a lack of resistance than an active push.
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