From: Andrew Gierth (andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk)
Date: Mon Sep 27 1999 - 23:59:58 CDT
>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
Charles> It seems to reflect current practice, which is designed to
Charles> prevent confusion of the users by having newsgroup names
Charles> differing only in case.
I'm not sure this holds water any more; having gone over the nntp
drafts again I see that the old brokenness of case-insensitive names
(specified in 977 but almost completely ignored by implementors) has
disappeared, so there may no longer be any technical justification
for excluding uppercase.
-- Andrew.