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From: aferen@cetacean.com (Andrew C. Feren)
Subject: Re: quoted printable decoding:: fix for M$ OutLook
Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 21:12:35 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7telgu5k59.fsf@cetacean.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87n0viwszp.fsf@pooh-sticks-bridge.tapsellferrier.co.uk>


Nic Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk> writes:

[...]

> Tim BL said a very decent thing: "be liberl in what you accept and
> conservative in what you send".

For the historically curious the original source of that quote is
Jon Postel.

http://www.postel.org/jonpostel.html

Good practice in any case.

> Let's not be bigotted.
> 
> 
> Nic Ferrier

-- 
-Andrew Feren
 Cetacean Networks, Inc.
 Portsmouth, NH


      reply	other threads:[~2002-05-02 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87vga77vkd.fsf@pooh-sticks-bridge.tapsellferrier.co.uk>
     [not found] ` <siy9f2oq4f.fsf@koli.tasking.nl>
2002-05-02 13:58   ` Nic Ferrier
2002-05-02 21:12     ` Andrew C. Feren [this message]

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