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  • This leads us to Jon Postel's famous axiom, "In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior."

    Boing Boing 2006

  • Postel's bill fell due; there was no money to meet it, and

    Eve and David Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • Clerget, a cousin of Postel's, a very good child; well, Basine told me the other day when she brought back the linen, that she was taking

    Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • His heart beat quickly as he passed Postel's shop; but, very luckily for him, the only persons inside it were Leonie and her child.

    Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • Postel's bill fell due; there was no money to meet it, and

    Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • M. Chardon, who used to have Postel's business in L'Houmeau.

    Eve and David Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • His heart beat quickly as he passed Postel's shop; but, very luckily for him, the only persons inside it were Leonie and her child.

    Eve and David Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • As he reached Postel's shop, he bethought himself that if all other means failed, he could borrow enough to live upon for a year from his father's successor.

    Two Poets Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • Clerget, a cousin of Postel's, a very good child; well, Basine told me the other day when she brought back the linen, that she was taking

    Eve and David Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • The money brought by Dauriat was a very Potosi for the lad who used to go about unnoticed through the streets of Angouleme and down the steep path into L'Houmeau to Postel's garret, where his whole family had lived upon an income of twelve hundred francs.

    Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824

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