Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: warning to all sinners in regard to current C News patches
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.165127.13687@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1991 16:51:27 GMT
References: <1991Mar24.035259.20738@zoo.toronto.edu> <FPP2HQE@taronga.hackercorp.com>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <FPP2HQE@taronga.hackercorp.com> peter@taronga.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> Time to get out a copy of RFC1036 and fix your software.
>
>"Be liberal about what you receive, conservative about what you generate"

We're still much more liberal than B News in most areas.  But too many
people begged and pleaded with us to tighten up header checking.  We
were being *too* liberal, and articles which did not meet the specs in
various ways were getting through and wreaking havoc.
-- 
"The stories one hears about putting up | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
SunOS 4.1.1 are all true."  -D. Harrison|  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry