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From: Rich Pieri <rich.pieri@PrescientTech.com>
Subject: Re: user-mail-address
Date: 05 Dec 1996 14:44:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <knu3q07p3v.fsf@gkar.asds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Karl Kleinpaste's message of 05 Dec 1996 13:15:49 -0500

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>>>>> "KK" == Karl Kleinpaste <karl@jprc.com> writes:

KK> Not even close, actually.

Let me put it this way: regardless of what case you use in your request
or the nameservers spit out for data (which is not affected, and I never
said was), the resolvers asking for information and the nameservers
responding will "squash" to a uniform case when performing the search.
Why?  Because so many of those old ARPAnet hosts were (and still are!)
incapable of distinguishing case.  I cut my teeth on some of those
systems.

So, there really is no reason to maintain mixed case.

Beyond that, there are esthetic reasons to smash to lowercase:
sTuDly-CapS aRe A fuCkinG paiN in thE aSs tO Read, eSpeCially wHen they
aRe All sMushEd TogeTher inTo A singLe "worD".

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  parent reply	other threads:[~1996-12-05 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-12-05 15:13 user-mail-address Jason R. Mastaler
1996-12-05 16:16 ` user-mail-address Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-12-05 19:02   ` user-mail-address Justin Sheehy
1996-12-05 17:00 ` user-mail-address Rich Pieri
1996-12-05 18:15   ` user-mail-address Karl Kleinpaste
1996-12-05 19:07     ` user-mail-address Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1996-12-05 19:44     ` Rich Pieri [this message]
1996-12-05 20:38       ` user-mail-address Steven L Baur
1996-12-05 21:32         ` user-mail-address Rich Pieri
1996-12-05 18:45   ` user-mail-address Randal Schwartz
2000-02-06 15:32 Removing nndoc groups? Slawek Zak
2000-02-06 21:20 ` user-mail-address amos+lists.ding
2000-04-20 23:00   ` user-mail-address Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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