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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Upper/lower case in addresses
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Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 10:34:13 EST
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	There has been a lot of discussion lately about whether case should
be significant in host names.  I remember some flack recently about
"glacier" vs. "Glacier" vs. "GLACIER", with nominally rational arguments
being made on all sides.  Anyway, I ran across the following in nj.general
and happened to notice the strange capitalization of the domain names (look
carefully at the From: and Message-ID: lines).

	This seems like somebody went out of their way to see how far they
could bend the rules before they broke.  It's one thing to be flexible in
the specifications so we can talk to (for example) people on BITNET with
upper-case only terminals, but why push the issue for no good reason?  At
the very least, I would think having your domain name written the same way
every time it appeared in one message would be a good idea.

> Path: phri!allegra!alice!ark
> From: ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig)
> Newsgroups: nj.general
> Subject: Re: AT&T in the copier business(?)
> Message-ID: <4994@alice.uUCp>
> Date: 19 Feb 86 04:00:15 GMT
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Roy Smith, {allegra,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
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