On Thursday 01 November 2007, feathered frog wrote: > On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Chris Knadle wrote: > > - RFC stands for "Remit For Comment". Often these are used in lieu of > > standards as if they were standards, when really they're > > the-next-best-thing and "best pracitices". They're usually *right*, > > IMHO, and so like others I read them and do my best to respect them. > > I'm pretty sure it's "Request for Comment" and they are "agreements" (only) > on the definition of good behavior: for hardware, software and wetware. > The consequences of misbehaving are, as in "real life" (whatever that is), > that some people my decline to do business with you should you flout the > standards of behavior.
Yes, certainly. One favorite are email connections that start off with a HELO/EHLO greeting that isn't a FQDN as is required by RFC 2821. When I started rejecting these it cut out 33% of junk email, without having to do any expensive computation. Some RFC's are commonly taken as "the letter of the law" [for good reasons], while others, like an RFC saying that a sig should be 4 lines or less, clearly aren't as strictly adhered to and I consider to be more of a request for everybody to use the honor system. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Oct 3 - Security and Privacy Nov 7 - Django Python Application Framework
