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RE: Postel's law, exceptions

• To: "Elliotte Rusty Harold" <elharo@m...>,"Tim Bray" <tbray@t...>
• Subject: RE: Postel's law, exceptions
• From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 21:10:09 -0800
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• Thread-topic: Postel's law, exceptions

Some would consider such mailings a denial of service attack, I'd agree with them. 
 
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From: Elliotte Rusty Harold [mailto:elharo@m...]
Sent: Tue 1/13/2004 8:37 PM
To: Tim Bray
Cc: xml-dev@l...
Subject: Re:  Postel's law, exceptions



One wonders what would happen if a popular aggregator began
auto-e-mailing error messages to the webmaster of each malformed feed
it encountered.
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   Elliotte Rusty Harold
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   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA

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