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From: "Dave Korn" <dk AT artimi DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?")
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:54:52 +0100
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of William Blunn
> Sent: 09 July 2004 11:28

> > This seems like a reasonable discussion that can hopefully 
> resolve this
> > issue once and for all, 

  LOL, you haven't been on the internet long have you?

> 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.

  There's another phrase that goes:

    "If you're archiving people's posts for all time, there is a moral
obligation on you to archive them absolutely *verbatim* and not tamper with,
edit, reformat, or otherwise alter them."


    cheers, 
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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