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From: ron@mlfarm.com (Ronald Florence)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.icon
Subject: Re: Message conventions
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Date: 8 Jan 91 03:19:56 GMT
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In-reply-to: Walter Underwood's message of Mon, 7 Jan 91 09:16:51 pst

Walter Underwood <hsi!hpsdel.sde.hp.com!wunder> writes:

 >    Oops!  Some mailers and news-posters use Message-ID; others use
 >    Message-Id.
 > 
 > The tags on header lines should be matched ignoring upper/lower case.
 > "mEsSaGe-iD:" is a perfectly legal tag, and equivalent to "Message-ID:".
 > The program may never see random case tags, but it will probably see all
 > upper case tags.  Anyway, the "right" fix is a case-insensitive match.

Walter is right (he even quoted RFC 822).  I'll spare everyone another
posting of reply.icn.  If anyone wants a version with the fix, write
me.  
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Ronald Florence			ron@mlfarm.com