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From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: Wanted: Messed-Up Mail Headers
Message-ID: <2016@argus.UUCP>
Date: 27 Sep 90 18:45:20 GMT
References: <63881@bu.edu.bu.edu> <3301@decuac.DEC.COM> <7154@dog.ee.lbl.gov> <1990Sep22.174312.29336@ibmpcug.co.uk>
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In article <1990Sep22.174312.29336@ibmpcug.co.uk>, dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell) writes:
: In article <7154@dog.ee.lbl.gov> leres@helios.ee.lbl.gov (ucbvax!leres for uucp weenies) writes:
: >I sure hate to contradict you but you're wrong. The golden rule of smtp
: >is, "Be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you send."
: Actually thats the golden rule of all TCP applications, as stated in
: RFC 1123. It applies generally to most things like that tho.

Unfortunately I've seen this phrase abused by both the sender and the
receiver implementers.  The sender says the receiver should be more 
liberal in what they accept.  And the receiver says the sender should
be more conservative in what they send.  Either that or they say 
"It's not a bug, its a FEE_TURE (as in fee_cees)."

-- 
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