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RE: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?")
- From: "Dave Korn" <dk at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:54:52 +0100
- Subject: RE: Wrapping long lines (Was Re: FAQ update suggestion for "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?")
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of William Blunn
> Sent: 09 July 2004 11:28
> > This seems like a reasonable discussion that can hopefully
> resolve this
> > issue once and for all,
LOL, you haven't been on the internet long have you?
> There is a phrase that goes:
>
> "Be permissive in what you accept, and strict in what you send"
>
> Now this is just a phrase, and by itself does not have significance.
>
> However it is well understood to be a concise summary of a
> set of ideas
> which are generally accepted to be sound.
>
> If you are developing a system which implements a web-accessible mail
> archive where the archive contains messages from many
> disparate sources,
> then I would have thought that this would be one guideline
> you should be
> paying attention to.
There's another phrase that goes:
"If you're archiving people's posts for all time, there is a moral
obligation on you to archive them absolutely *verbatim* and not tamper with,
edit, reformat, or otherwise alter them."
cheers,
DaveK
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