Re: Searching for a quote

[Jason Iannone <jason.iannone () gmail com>]

Thanks all.

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Tim Durack <tdurack () gmail com> wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel
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> Postel's Law
> Perhaps his most famous legacy is from RFC 760, which includes a Robustness
> Principle which is often labeled Postel's Law: "an implementation should be
> conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior"
> (reworded in RFC 1122 as "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in
> what you send").
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> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 8:20 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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> Tim:>