Re: Recent threads concerning sergeants-at-arms

Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Tue, 03 September 2019 23:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: Recent threads concerning sergeants-at-arms
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On 9/3/19 7:36 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:

> Does not Postel's law pretty much sum things up: "Be conservative in 
> what you send, be liberal in what you accept?"
>
Perhaps.  Though in both human conversation and protocol implementation, 
it's pretty easy to interpret that in unhelpful ways.

Keith