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From: lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot)
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Subject: Re: Mild flame about (some) UNIX mailers
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Date: 25 Feb 90 23:27:14 GMT
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[From RFC1123]

      1.2.2  Robustness Principle

         At every layer of the protocols, there is a general rule whose
         application can lead to enormous benefits in robustness and
         interoperability:


                "Be liberal in what you accept, and
                 conservative in what you send"

UNIX doesn't let you forget that.
-- 
Eliot Lear
[lear@TURBO.BIO.NET]