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Re: Postel's Law Has No Exceptions

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• Subject: Re: Postel's Law Has No Exceptions
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 18:19:22 -0400
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simonstl@s... (Simon St.Laurent) forwarded:
>The creators of XML were wrong. Postelâ??s Law has no exceptions."

Just to be clear, this is Aaron Swartz's argument, not mine.   I
disagree with Aaron, but for reasons that are not yet coherent enough to
post.  I figured his provocation was worth some thought, however.

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