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Subject: Re:  Doing the Right Thing
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Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 21:30:58 EDT
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From: Ron Natalie <ron@BRL.ARPA>

Jeez, end of subject please.  Yes, the program at BRL was doing the
wrong thing.  You get screwed when you make shortcuts like this.  Same
thing happened to nearly every 4.2 site when the host BRL-ZAP was
added.  They wrote grammer rules to parse the table that were wrong, and
the entry for that host was legal in the table spec, but caused the
program to blow up.  Guess who got all the complaints?   Right, BRL and
the NIC.  The code probably never did get fixed at most sites as BRL
modified their entry to complied with the 4.2 pinhead view on what the
table looked like.

Let's just move along to implementing the next specification (domains,
such as they are), regarding this as a lesson to be learned.

-Ron