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Re:The “Chad” bug by mikeash on Thursday December 31, 2015 @06:37AM (#10817215)
Doesn't this sort of RFC typically summarize and codify real-world usage, rather than coming up with new stuff? If a feature is in there, I'd have thought it's because somebody uses it.
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Re:The “Chad” bug by pc86 on Thursday December 31, 2015 @10:40AM (#10817989)
At some point you just have to reach the level of "Yeah... don't do that." I would suspect have "@" as part of your email probably approaches that line.
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Re:The “Chad” bug by mikeash on Thursday December 31, 2015 @11:08AM (#10818156)
It would be interesting to know the context. If this feature was already in a popular piece of software, then saying "don't do that" in your standard risks fragmenting things rather than codifying them, and that's no good either.
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