Brad Knowles writes: > At 2:07 AM +0200 2006-08-31, Bretton Vine wrote: > > > (locally) it's been referred to as a "be strict in what you send, relaxed > > in > > what you receive" approach but not everyone adheres to (or is aware of) > > this > > way of looking at things and it seems antiquated to some. > > It's called the Postel Principle, and some of us are old enough to > remember when the term was first coined. While there are cases where > it is not always appropriate to apply the Postel Principle, there are > still plenty of us around that firmly believe that using "safe > defaults" is a better way to go.
IMHO, it's the *same way to go.* AIUI (I seem to be missing a post or two) Mailman accepted the mail, Mailman did not drop it on the floor, Mailman *could* have sent it---but the Postel Principle doesn't imply that it should have done so. We have good reason (by default, which default doesn't apply to Bretton's shop, it seems) to believe that that post should be looked at (strictly ;-) by a human before sending. Steve ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
