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On boots and assholesOn boots and assholesPosted Jun 21, 2012 1:14 UTC (Thu) by neilbrown (subscriber, #359)In reply to: On boots and assholes by nix Parent article: On mocking
It all really comes down to the Postel Principle - doesn't it?
Be conservative in what you send, liberal in what you accept.
It works for people as well as computers.
Of course there is a limit to liberality - protocol violations are still protocol violations. But we can be conservative in the error messages that we return.
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On boots and assholes Posted Jun 21, 2012 19:21 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Yeah, except that this is a situation in which potential receivers can also choose to silently disappear without the sender knowing, because they dislike the protocol violations that they see. And if we value actual receivers, that's a bad thing.
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