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Article #693Re: Mild flame about (some) UNIX mailers
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 1990 20:04
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 1990 20:04
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> } "Be liberal in what you accept, and
> } conservative in what you send"
> In my experience, the typical postmaster who quotes this aphorism wants
> others to abide by the first part, so that he doesn't have to abide by
> the second. Not Eliot, of course. But every other time this bullshit
> has appeared, that has been what was actually going on.
One does not always have the option of abiding by the second, unless you
use the newfangled meaning of the word "conservative" (i.e., reactionary).
Those of us at sites with proprietary mail software that can't economically
be replaced are kind of stuck. Even if we generate standard UUCP version
2 headers (which conform to RFC822 via a grandfather clause, according
to people I've spoken to) we're out of luck for sites running smail 3.0.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.headers Subject: Re: Mild flame about (some) UNIX mailers Message-ID: <JM:1UZxds13@ficc.uu.net> Date: 2 Mar 90 20:04:18 GMT References: <Feb.25.15.27.14.1990.5767@turbo.bio.net> <16483@well.sf.ca.us> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 15