On Mon, Apr 27, 2009, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen <at> xemacs.org> writes: >> >> If >> you see a broken encoding once, you're likely to see it a million times >> (spammers have the most broken software) or maybe have it raise an >> unhandled Exception a dozen times (in rate of using busted software, >> the spammers are closely followed by bosses---which would be very bad, >> eh, if you 2/3 of the mail from your boss ends up in an undeliverables >> queue due to encoding errors that are unhandled by your some filter in >> your mail pipeline). > > Besides, I don't care about spammers and their broken software.
Maybe you don't, but anyone who has to process random messages does; you have to assume that messages will be broken. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." --Red Adair _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
