From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Dec 13 2002 - 06:44:33 CST
In <Pine.BSI.3.91.1021213002009.23231A-100000@spsystems.net> Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net> writes:
>On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, J.B. Moreno wrote:
>> But even if they are the only programs to do so, I think the fact that users
>> will be entering this by hand trumps current practice in this case...
>Why? The fact that users may be entering the wrong thing by hand just
>means that the posting agent has to clean it up or bounce it back to the
>user; this is far from the only area where it has such duties.
Exactly so. This is a classic case of being conservative in what you send
(MUST send "poster") but liberal in what you accept (MAY accept "Poster").
That is exactly what my latest text says.
And, as Henry says, a decent injector will throw it back at you. The "MAY"
is there for the indecent injectors.
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