[OTR-users] some questions

[Chad Perrin]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 05:07:42PM -0500, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
> Chad Perrin <perrin at apotheon.com> writes:
> 
> > I guess you missed the "strict in what you emit" part.
> 
> I have no complaints with being strict in what I emit, but like many
> golden rules, it doesn't help when other people aren't playing by
> it. It does me little good to be strict in what *I* emit when I must
> parse what others emit.
> 
> The only feedback that the authors of other clients are going to have
> is complaints from their users; if I generously make my client work
> with theirs, outside of spec, then there is no force acting on them to
> make them conform. Only rejecting their messages and causing pain for
> their users will do that.

I suspect the most likely result will be that people will stop using the
"strict in what I accept" client.

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