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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: An apology for the invalid control messages.
Message-ID: <1990Aug8.235052.7264@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <25157.26b95615@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <3295@stl.stc.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 90 23:50:52 GMT

In article <3295@stl.stc.co.uk> dww@stl.stc.co.uk (David Wright) writes:
>and all the news admins on all the news hosts on all the net got 70 mail
>messages each about them.   But thanks for owning up!

Actually, C News sites only get one per batch; here, for example, it was
only one (rather long) mail message.

>More seriously - its an easy mistake to make.   And why should control
>messages be case-sensitive anyway?    I suggest that the maintainers of B
>and C news add a patch to the next set thereof which makes the check for
>control command case-insensitive...

I'm lukewarm about this; on the one hand the case distinction has no
particular value in this context, on the other hand control messages do
have to be carefully spelled anyway, and it's one more nuisance in the
code.  This one's ultimately Geoff's decision, since it's his code, and
I suspect he may not want to bother.  A quick look at RFC1036 finds no
imdication that control messages are supposed to be case-insensitive.
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