Meta: How should you deal with this complexity? If you now know a system is full of edge and corner cases what should you do? (Feel free to expound beyond the

Meta: How should you deal with this complexity? If you now know a system is full of edge and corner cases what should you do? (Feel free to expound beyond the email case) Some strategies for discussion: - Don't roll your own The system is too complex to attempt to build yourself. Find libraries or services to do it for you. - Start flexible then patch Build a system which is designed specifically to change and only handle the most obvious cases to start. As users complain, patch. - Disallow complexity Build a strict system which does not and will not support corner cases in favor of consistency. - Other