understand their reluctance. Open Source developers also tend to take a
more inflexible stance when it comes to companies and software which
ignore standards. I supposed if some enterprising programmer wanted to
When a piece of spam clogs your mail server, and fetchmail repeatedly
fetches it a thousand times (yes, this has happened to us, and I can
trivially send you a message which will make it happen to you),
standards don't really have anything to do with anything. That
message needs to get fetched and removed from the server without
human intervention.
Hear hear.
Anything is pointless dogmatism, particularly when there are no real
obstacles to doing it.
Good software talking to the outside world should accept whatever crap it
gets sent and speak using perfect standards.