Re: Suggest slight change in description of Slug

[Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@xxxxxxx>]

On Mar 19, 2007, at 5:37 PM, Bill de hOra wrote:

>  - SLUG is untestable without re-implementing what each server  
> does; Tim is about to find this out, as will others. The "slight  
> change" is an attempt to insert precision in the format data, but  
> generally it's a failure to admit that the best you can do with the  
> feature is to reverse engineer what servers do.

Huh?  I have a nice deterministic test for Slug which seems to work  
reliably.   It's a useful feature and easy to implement.  It's just  
that the current description is slightly inaccurate.  -Tim