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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 
> > For one, when I had to generate such headers, I used `MIME-Version'
> > not by personal taste, but because it was written this way in the
> > MIME RFC's (if I remember correctly :-).
> 
> Yes, but the very same RFC explicitly states that all header names are 
> case-insensitive.

Oh come on, who reads documentation?  Isn't the real concern here
providing for broken mail readers that have been programmed ``by
example''.

The *safest* thing to do is probably to use the capitalization shown
in the MIME RFCs in outgoing messages.  I don't think the aesthetics
of it are all that relevant, since gnus doesn't normally show us the
MIME-Version (or Mime-Version, or mImE-vErSiOn, or whatever) header
anyway.

Dale.