From: John Stanley (stanley@peak.org)
Date: Wed Dec 18 2002 - 15:56:47 CST
Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk):
>And the reason for going no higher than MAY is that it is a nuisance to
>implement case insensitivity in the middle of a header where all the other
>alternatives (newsgroup-names) require case sensitivity.
This is nonsense. You already require a special test for the string
'poster' outside any tests for newsgroup names. To claim that it is
difficult or hard or "a nuisance" to simply use the case-insensitive
pattern matching already available on every non-obsolete system is just
hogwash. You do one match for "poster". All you have to do to remove
case-sensitivity is to do one case-insensitive match -- it is the SAME
AMOUNT OF EFFORT.
Can we please stop this "it's too hard" nonsense now? Can we please have
some reason for this artificial limitation?