RS> Pigs arse there werent, you said right
RS> from the start that it was a PCable offense.

PE> Crap.

RS> Fraid you did, the FIRST time you said anything to the NODE, you did just 
RS> that.

That's hair-splitting.  He likely saw the first message, certainly saw the
second message, he knew they were about stuff from his node, the THIRD
message was where I mentioned PC.

PE> Just a simple pointing out that messages from your system were out of spec.

RS> You havent actually established that they WERE

PE> Read the specs yourself.

RS> No thanks, it aint as rigidly specified as you claim, just like the
RS> presence of 0x01s aint anything like as rigidly specified as you claim.

Fraid so.

RS> Pigs arse it is. If your code is mindlessly anal or just badly
RS> written and falls over because it uses a fragile alg on the PATH
RS> data, thats YOUR problem when the format aint rigidly specified.

Fraid not.

RS> And even when the format *IS* rigidly specified like with the date,
RS> just because that caused YOU as one person a problem that DOES NOT mean
RS> that you get to demand that everyone in the entire net cleans up their act
RS> forthwith with you furiously PCing every breach of 'the specs' you can 
RS> find.

Fraid so.

RS> Fraid Fido doesnt actually work like that, it will in
RS> fact just flush you out of the system if you try that.

Whether it does or not, I don't know.  It's CERTAINLY what the ZC said in
black and white.  BFN.  Paul.
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