This group has been taking a pretty anti-Postel posture, so the
consistent answer
would be to consider it badly formed and thus broken. Whether that's the
right
answer...
I am guessing that the Postel reference is for being liberal in what you accept.
That guidance always has limits, of course. The wrangling over canonicalization
is an example of very much trying to be liberal.
But Postel never meant, for example, that one should accept a semi-colon if the
syntax called for a period. There are reasonable distortions imposed by the net
and there are unreasonable errors imposed by originators. The latter need to lose.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
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