From: John Stanley (stanley@peak.org)
Date: Thu Dec 12 2002 - 13:10:30 CST
Matt Curtin (cmcurtin@interhack.net):
>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.
No, you've got it backwards. If you specify that it is case-insensitive,
then software that does it right will "grok" all the versions that can be
produced (even from systems that believe that it is case-sensitive), while
the software that doesn't treat it properly will announce itself as
broken.
You'll also have a very hard time trying to define human behaviour in this
respect, and Humans have a propensity for Capitalizing Words when they
type them in by Hand. Some of them even have a habit of SHOUTING.
Unless there really is a possibility for the group "Poster" to ever exist,
there is no reason to put an artificial limitation on the case for the
word "poster" in this use.