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   RE: [xml-dev] Postel's law, exceptions

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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@metalab.unc.edu]
Sent: Tue 1/13/2004 8:37 PM
To: Tim Bray
Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re: [xml-dev] 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
   elharo@metalab.unc.edu
   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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