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Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

>  >> > Can you explain How your reasoning ran on that again?   : )
>  >> 
>  >> Sure, Harry. No problem. 
>  >> 
>  >> First off, mime postdates rfc822 so it's not really appropriate
>  >> to be quoting rules from that rfc, however correct they might
>  >> be.

This makes no sense, given that MIME is explicitly designed to fit
into rfc822.

>  >> I don't have full references on this point, although it's quite
>  >> well known, but it appears that there are some mime
>  >> implementations which parse for the "mime" portion of
>  >> "MIME-Version" in upper case only,

I don't consider this "well-known" at all.  Never heard of it myself.

>  >> | draft-ietf-usefor-article-01
>  >> |
>  >> |           Header-names are case-insensitive. There is a preferred case
>  >> |           convention, which posters and posting agents SHOULD use:
>  >> |           each hyphen-separated "word" has its initial letter (if any)
>  >> |           in uppercase and the rest in lowercase, except that some
>  >> |           abbreviations have all letters uppercase (e.g. "Message-ID"
>  >> |           and "MIME-Version").

As I said: aesthetics, pure and simple.