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Re: Searching for a quote


From: Tom Paseka <tom () cloudflare com>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 17:24:59 -0700

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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