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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.mail.headers
Subject: Re: capitalization
Message-ID: <121@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-Feb-85 23:59:21 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 25 23:59:21 1985
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> Why in seven hells do these cute-as-a-shithouse-rat mailers insist on
> touching the text of the destination host name at all?  Why not make the
> rules be "match case insensitive, but preserve what the sender sent?"

Some machines believe in full ASCII, others are only half-Ascii.  Some
people on the former machines like all one case (their choice), while
others like mixed cases, and those on the latter machines get no choice.
Unfortunately, not all software is tolerant of this kind of variation,
so each system tries to do "the right thing" by its addresses.  And, we
being the egoless types we are, "the right thing" gets interpreted in
some rather interesting ways at different sites.	;-)

Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{ARPA,UUCP}