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From: jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers
Subject: Re: A plea for sanity (Errors-to:)
Message-ID: <469@minya.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 88 16:44:56 GMT
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In article <6959@oberon.USC.EDU>, blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson) writes:
> In article <11806@brl-adm.ARPA> TVR%CCRMA-F4@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (Tovar) writes:
> [Quote from previous article:]
> >     Errors-To: is completely unnecessary if SMTP is correctly implemented.
> 
> >I will disagree strongly on this point.
> 
Hey, I'd agree.  But I'd also point out that it is a total irrelevancy in
today's networking environmant.  Sensible programmers don't write code (or 
at least try to sell it :-) which assumes that other software is correct.
I learned that lesson the first time I tried calling a library subroutine.
Email has lots & lots of opportunities to re-learn the lesson.

For another metaphor, I'd like to point out that seat belts would be 
unnecessary if everyone drove correctly.  True, but irrelevant.

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John Chambers <{adelie,ima,maynard,mit-eddie}!minya!{jc,root}> (617/484-6393)