> -----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.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/