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Re: Searching for a quote

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Paseka)
Thu Mar 12 20:26:49 2015

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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:24:59 -0700
From: Tom Paseka <tom@cloudflare.com>
To: Jason Iannone <jason.iannone@gmail.com>
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Be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept

^http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 5:20 PM, Jason Iannone <jason.iannone@gmail.com>
wrote:

> There was once a fairly common saying attributed to an early
> networking pioneer that went something like, "be generous in what you
> accept, and send only the stuff that should be sent."  Does anyone
> know what I'm talking about or who said it?
>

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