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Article #126Re: Wanted: Messed-Up Mail Headers
From: Kenneth Ng
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 1990 18:45
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 1990 18:45
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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)." -- Kenneth Ng: Post office: NJIT - CCCC, Newark New Jersey 07102 uucp !andromeda!galaxy!argus!ken *** NOT ken@bellcore.uucp *** bitnet(prefered) ken@orion.bitnet or ken@orion.njit.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!galaxy.rutgers.edu!argus!ken 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> Organization: NJ Instit. of Tech: TEIES Project Lines: 17