From: Matt Curtin (cmcurtin@interhack.net)
Date: Wed Dec 11 2002 - 17:11:09 CST
John Stanley <stanley@peak.org> writes:
> Since we already know that some software does does treat it as
> case-insensitive, documenting existing practice would require us to
> specify that it is case-insensitive, and there is no other reason
> not to do so.
Except that some widely-deployed software (whether as a bug or not)
treats it case sensitively in practice. I think treating it as
case-sensitive is correct, particularly if software SHOULD grok
articles handled by software that threats it otherwise.
-- Matt Curtin, CISSP, IAM, INTP. Keywords: Lisp, Unix, Internet, INFOSEC. Founder, Interhack Corporation +1 614 545 HACK http://web.interhack.com/ Author of /Developing Trust: Online Privacy and Security/ (Apress, 2001)