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[Rod... Whitworth]

On Wed, 05 Sep 2001 10:48:10 -0300, PMMail OS/2 Support wrote:

>On Wed, 05 Sep 2001 07:57:12 +0200 (MES), Lueko Willms wrote:
>
>>   OTOH, while one should be very strict with a standard on the
>>sending side, on the receiving side, one should be very permissive
>>with the standards and allow for a lot of strange behaviour. 
>
>In theory, I think it is unfair to expect a mail client to be "very
>permissive" on the receiving end. Or, at least I think it would be
>unfair if people started calling things 'bugs' if they weren't as
>permissive of broken standards as they wanted them to be.
>
>However, in practice, I think you're advice is probably the best I've
>ever seen. Ideally we should be very permissive in receiving. That's
>just my opinion though so please don't interpret it as a promise that
>BSW is going to do or not do anything specific.


It is an RFC. See RFC 791 3.2 par 1

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