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Re: Debian is testing Discourse



On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 02:54:42PM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:

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> A longstanding principle of good software design: "be conservative in
> what you emit, and liberal in what you consume". In some such set of
> words or another.

This would be Postel's principle -- and this gentleman was especially
interested in Internet protocols... but I get the idea.

I do subscribe to this principle, at least in general, but to be fair,
there are smart folks out there who do not.

Cheers
-- t

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