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Sean Donelan
sean at donelan.com
Fri Jan 4 16:36:06 UTC 2008
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Donald Stahl wrote:
>> RFC 1122 (Requirements for Internet Hosts - Communication Layers)
>> section 1.2.2 (Robustness Principle):
>>
>> "Be liberal in what you accept, and
>> conservative in what you send"
> Which has done nothing but allow countless Exchange server to HELO with
> exchange.local and other such idiocy, not to mention contribute to the spam
> problem.
Yep, which is why I suggest the modification:
You may be liberal in what you accept, and you should always be
conservative in what you send.
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