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From: munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET (Geoff Huston)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: RE: HeLp Me PlEaSe!!!!
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Date: 8 Dec 89 14:03:56 GMT
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Reply-To: Geoff Huston <munnari!csc.anu.oz.au!gih900@UUNET.UU.NET>
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>Can someone please tell my why ANU-NEWS sometimes converts message ids to lower
>case?  This first caused me problems when I was useing a UNIX machine as a
>server.  The messages with upper case letters in the ids were un readable
>because ANU converted the id to lower case and the UNIX machine didn't
>recognize the ids because it is case sensitive.
     
the conversion happens only in the internal database (news.items file). This is
of course WRONG and shouldn't have happened, but at the time it looked like a
reasonable solution - it will be fixed.
     
Geoff