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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: [Slightly OT] How to process lightweight text markup languages?
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 14:12:39 -0600
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"G.B." <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid> wrote in message 
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> Leaving some issues aside such as right brackets being far away,
> or missing altogether, or superfluous due to having been placed
> twice as in Natasha's example, or structured and misspelled, this
> setup falls a little short of what is to be achieved. In
> particular in a live system where there is no human involved,
> something must be produced:

No, this is a fallicy. The Internet (and world in general) would be better 
off if documents that are sufficiently malformed were simply not displayed 
at all. In that case, the document source would be fixed if anyone cares 
enough.

As it is, the attempts at autocorrection leave huge holes in the safety of 
the Internet (thus the world at large, as the Internet has become so 
intergral). Malware filters cannot by their nature guess all of the ways 
that some idiot tool will deal with malformed input, meaning that there are 
always holes in the defenses to exploit.

And for what? So that people who can't be bothered to get their documents 
formatted correctly still get some results (thus reenforcing their bad 
behavior). Bah humbug!!

                              Randy.