Re: mx.gnus.org being very strict

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 08:13:32PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote:
> > Anyway, you know the old rule: be conservative in what you produce,
> > and liberal in what you accept.  So yeah, it'd be nice if everyone
> > would use lots of headers, but rejecting mail outright because there
> > are no mime-headers on 8-bit mail is a bit overly strict.
> 
> Well, if they are going to emit ("produce" doesn't seem right) the stuff
> they have accepted verbatim, accepting junk means producing junk,
> breaking the "conservative in what you produce" part. Gateways, Relays
> always face this problem. Accept liberally and emit garbage, or accept
> only conforming mail and emit conservatively formatted data.

If you are a gateway, you should probably just be as transparent as you
can...

It's the endpoints that know what's going on; when gateways try to interpret
things, they as often as not just muck things up.

There are cases where you can't be transparent, and have to interpret, of
course, as when you're converting from one form to another.

-Miles
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