From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Dec 12 2002 - 09:34:23 CST
In <86k7ig178y.fsf@rowlf.interhack.net> Matt Curtin <cmcurtin@interhack.net> writes:
>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.
Exactly so. Remember that this issue started when someone posted with
Followup-To: Poster in one of the uk.* groups, and there were reports of
at least two systems that treated it case sensitively, and therefore
failed to do the followup.
Note also that my revised text says that agents MAY be liberal and treat
it as case insensitive (no harm can arise, because single-component
newsgroup-names are forbidden anyway).
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