<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Once every a couple months, the "top posting versus bottom posting holy wars" erupt. There is no victory, there are no prevailing parties, there is no peace, no truce.<br></div>No matter how much time passes, we continue waging this endless war. We have since long lost track of how much hard disks got filled with the resulting messages of this war, and it keeps going and going.<br>
</div>We are all stuck on our confirmation bias. We obviously have the simple and absolute truth that we are on the right side, and we just cannot understand why the opposing side cannot see the beauty, simplicity and correctness of our view. Looks like them are stuck on their biases too.<br>
<br><br></div><div>And the war keeps going, and going, and going...<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Mauro<br><a href="http://mauro.limeiratem.com">http://mauro.limeiratem.com</a> - registered Linux User: 294521<br>
Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God.</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/5/28 Christopher Browne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="im">On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Stewart C. Russell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scruss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">scruss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Don't forget Postel's Law, as enshrined in RFC1122: “Be liberal in what<br>
you accept, and conservative in what you send”.<br clear="all"></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Obviously not being followed, in this case.<br><br></div><div>Following that principle would lead to people tending to being accepting of HTML-based mail (as that's the "liberal" part), and of them being loath to submit it, as it is most definitely NOT the "conservative" thing to send.<br>
<br></div><div>In effect, what you're describing indicates that "current industry practice" is utterly dismissive of Postel's Law.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div></div>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br>When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the<br>
question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"<br>
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