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Re: Searching for a quote


From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 20:29:07 -0400

That was quick. :-)

Tom Paseka wrote:
Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept

^http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Jason Iannone <jason.iannone () gmail com>
wrote:

There was once a fairly common saying attributed to an early
networking pioneer that went something like, "be generous in what you
accept, and send only the stuff that should be sent."  Does anyone
know what I'm talking about or who said it?



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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.   .... Yogi Berra


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