Re: [abcusers] Modes, democracy and benevolent(?) dictatorship

[Anselm Lingnau]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Of course, this does run contrary to the other common approach, which
> might  be  summarized  "If  the ABC has even a tiny error, you should
> reject it, lest people be encouraged to keep making errors."

The consequence of this is to support a �loose mode� as well as a
�picky mode�. You use loose mode for stuff that comes in from
elsewhere that doesn't pass in picky mode, and picky mode for stuff
that you are going to send out that you want to be 100% conforming to
the standard (or whatever).

Anselm
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Anselm Lingnau ......................... [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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