Message-Id: <199601092225.RAA13188@wilma.cs.utk.edu>
From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
To: John Gardiner Myers <jgm+@cmu.edu>
cc: drums@cs.utk.edu, moore@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: "be liberal in what you accept" considered harmful 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jan 1996 16:24:39 EST."
             <UkwhoLW00WBwQ6lnRw@andrew.cmu.edu> 
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 17:24:55 -0500
Sender: moore@cs.utk.edu

> > Wbat's a software developer to do?
> 
> A software developer is to do what a software developer has to do.
> Sometimes, this means holding one's nose and accepting garbage.  If
> there is to be a move to be made from liberalism to strictness in,
> say, the internet mail area, it will only effectively happen as a
> coordinated effort by the major players.

I agree with this, and consider it entirely appropriate for drums
to mandate some additional strictness over 821/822/1123/etc.
Where additional strictness is warranted, the standards process seems 
like the best mechanism to encourage it to happen.

Keith