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From: Makey@Logicon.COM (Jeff Makey)
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Subject: Re: Imminent death of UUCP Zone predicted
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Date: 31 Jul 90 18:01:15 GMT
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In article <8M-4O=A@ggpc2.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>What, because the DEC-20 down the hall violates the common sense guideline (be
>conservative in what you generate, be liberal in what you accept) you jump to
>the conclusion that everyone does?

It seems to me that Karl has delegated the "DEC-20 down the hall"'s
obligation to be liberal in what it accepts to some other machine.
This doesn't seem any worse than, say, delegating the resolving of
domain names to uunet.

                           :: Jeff Makey

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