Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 22:41:11 -0600 From: Chris Fedde <chris@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "Bill A. K." <billieakay@yahoo.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IE for FreeBSD Petition Message-ID: <200005220441.e4M4fBp08044@fedde.littleton.co.us> In-Reply-To: <20000522093603.B77130@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Mon, 22 May 2000 09:36:03 +0930 Greg Lehey wrote:
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| I think this is a very bad idea. Look at your mail message for one
| good reason why: Microsoft software is just plain broken. You
| probably don't even realise that your message was written without line
| breaks. Isn't it much easier to read like this?
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Before we start calling the kettle black we might want to check the color
of our own pot. Your mailer included the following headers.
Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia
Phone: +61-8-8388-8286
Fax: +61-8-8388-8725
Mobile: +61-418-838-708
WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog
Unless something has changed recently I don't beleave that these are valid
headers by any interpretation of the appropriate RFCs.
At best these should be inside a Comments: header or perhaps preceded
by an X- to indicate that they are not standard. Current convention
appears to be to slap these into a xcard or vcard format encapsulated
in MIME.
BTW I agree with the sentiment of your note. It is a shame that broken
Internet software is as common as it is. It stems from the so called
"Robustness Principle" exhibited by most core implementations:
"Be liberal in what you accept, and
conservative in what you send"
Maybe I should take my own advice.
Have fun
chris
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