Hi Owen, > I used to write email software for a living, including RFC-822 etc. > The golden rule was "be conservative in what you originate, and > generous in what you accept".
That's out of date these days. It was from the cuddly world where passwords were sent in plain text over daisy-chained networking connections where anyone could eavesdrop. There's even an old RFC on what's wrong with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle By not rigorously checking every bit complies, one is increasing the surface area of attack, either at that site, or downstream. Cheers, Ralph. _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
