[Email-SIG] fixing the current email module

[R. David Murray]

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 at 13:01, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Glenn Linderman writes:
> > (I switched conformant to compliant,
>
> Conformant is in common use.  You might be more comfortable with
> conforming.
>
> Richard Stallman points out that you comply with the law, but you
> conform to a standard.  I think it's useful to make that semantic
> distinction, cf. RFC 2119 MUST vs. SHOULD or MAY.

Indeed.  My regular dictionary doesn't have it, but WordWeb does:

http://www.wordwebonline.com/en/CONFORMANT

Seems to be a 'term of art' in computing rather than a regular
English word, and the most appropriate word in the context in
which I used it.  But perhaps it should be added to the Glossary
itself :)

--David