[CQ-Contest] An Open Letter to Cabrillo Robot Authors [was AnOpportunity for Cabrillo Improvement]

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

On Jan 3, 2007, at 2:45 PM, Kevin J. Rowett wrote:

>> Robot authors, please seriously re-examine the way that QSO:
>> data is parsed.
>
> Be conservative in what you send/emit, liberal in what you accept/ 
> parse.

That is not what John meant when he made that (somewhat apocryphal)  
statement you paraphrase.

"Be liberal" meant "do not drop core or crash in the presence of bad  
data."  It never meant "accept and try to intuit the intent of the  
author when presented with nonsense."

--lyndon