From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Dec 04 2002 - 05:11:26 CST
In <86isybz13n.fsf@rowlf.interhack.net> Matt Curtin <cmcurtin@interhack.net> writes:
>"Charles Lindsey" <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:
>> 1. Is it supposed to be case insensitive?
>Yes.
Hmm. Henry seems to think otherwise, and so does Andrew Gierth (in an
article on uk.net.news.management).
>> 2. Do you want me to make it so in the draft (it is easily done)?
>I don't think a big deal should be made of it, in fact, I think it
>only makes sense if we do so in the context of advice to implementors,
>i.e.,
>> 3. If so, do we want any SHOULD/MUST be liberal in accepting "Poster"?
>We should probably note that it's a MUST because of our dependency on
>ABNF, given that apparently not all implementors are doing the Right
>Thing.
It is a MUST as the draft as currently written for that reason, but the
suggestion is that should be changed (there are other places where we have
made things case sensitive by writing the required string explicitly in
hex, for example "Re: ").
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