Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/07/09/06:28:03
> This seems like a reasonable discussion that can hopefully resolve this
> issue once and for all, and so, IMO, belongs on the list rather than in
> private e-mail.
There is a phrase that goes:
"Be permissive in what you accept, and strict in what you send"
Now this is just a phrase, and by itself does not have significance.
However it is well understood to be a concise summary of a set of ideas
which are generally accepted to be sound.
If you are developing a system which implements a web-accessible mail
archive where the archive contains messages from many disparate sources,
then I would have thought that this would be one guideline you should be
paying attention to.
It is trivially simple to handle flowed-text messages as well as
messages with additional inexplicable linebreaks.
I have set up several web-based systems which do this, and it wasn't
hard.
It hasn't caused any problems on the systems I set up, and has made
things a lot easier by not having to waste time trying to browbeat users
into doing things in a particular way.
Bill
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