From: Claus Färber (list-ietf-wg-apps-usefor@faerber.muc.de)
Date: Fri Dec 20 2002 - 05:42:00 CST
Charles Lindsey <chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk> schrieb/wrote:
> In <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212181352540.2638-100000@localhost.localdomain> John Stanley <stanley@peak.org> writes:
>> This is nonsense. You already require a special test for the string
>> 'poster' outside any tests for newsgroup names.
> Yes, but a simple implementation is just to regard "poster" as a newsgroup
> name, parsed by the normal machinery, and then do something special when
> it turns up.
You obviously never implemented such a piece of software, have you? It
just makes no difference if you use one function to test against poster
case-sensitively or another funtion to test case-insensitively.
Claus
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