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From: lmcl@ukc.UUCP (L.M.McLoughlin)
Newsgroups: net.mail.headers
Subject: Re:  capitalization
Message-ID: <4867@ukc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Feb-85 20:41:52 EST
Article-I.D.: ukc.4867
Posted: Thu Feb 14 20:41:52 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 19-Feb-85 06:38:33 EST
References: <8288@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Reply-To: lmcl@ukc.UUCP (Lee McLoughlin)
Organization: Computing Laboratory, U of Kent at Canterbury, UK
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In article <8288@brl-tgr.ARPA> "the tty of Geoffrey S. Goodfellow" <Geoff@SRI-CSL.ARPA> writes:
>As I recall, it all started years ago when Dave Crocker thought it was
>a "good idea" to cutesy-up host names and put code in the MMDF mailer.
>Since then, the affliction seems to have grown and spread.  Can we
>kill the epidemic before it becomes inter galactically offensive?
>

One mod I *HAD* to make to MMDF in order to run in the UK/Europe was to
take out the uppercasing.  This was easily done, everywhere in the main
system is caseless but  will use the case of the official name in the database
when asked to rewrite it.  I just stopped the database builder from
uppercasing it in the first place!

So on being given:
	Kcl-CS
	kcl-cs
or
	KCL-CS
in an address they will all be considered the same as:
	kcl-cs
and will be re-written to that on output.

I say *HAD* since nearby sendmail sites stomped all over message headers
because it couldn't recognise sites like UKC and KCL-CS.

So if you run MMDF and have a neighbour who runs sendmail better check
on this.