Brian Reichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 11:44:10AM -0700, David Benfell wrote: >> >> I keep hearing rumblings about how Dan plays fast and loose with the >> RFCs in qmail and his other programs. All I know is I'm a happy qmail >> (and djbdns and publicfile and ezmlm+idx) user. It all works for me. > >The only other thing I recall someone bitching about is that he >invented a new header field 'Delivered-To', wherein the >convention/standard (when you are inventing such things) is to >prepend them with an 'X-', ie: 'X-Delivered'To'. That's not a standard. One thing DJB does thumb his nose at is the RFC821 prohibition against transmitting 8-bit characters. Chicken Little notwithstanding, the sky remains intact. Standards are great but they shouldn't be followed blindly. -Dave
