Postel and ESR (was Re: [TriLUG] Monthly mailman reminders and procmail)

Mike M no-linux-support at earthlink.net
Fri Oct 1 14:52:26 EDT 2004


On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 12:05:06PM -0400, Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
> Mike M wrote:
> 
> >Postel's Law from RFC 793
> 
> I suppose what's to be learned, is that one should be careful what you 
> read into Postel's law. :)

ESR is amusing.  Nevertheless HTML is robust.  TCP is robust.  Postel's 
philosophy for robustness works when applied to social situations too.

-- 
Mike

Moving forward in pushing back the envelope of the corporate paradigm.



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