From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/19921 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mime-Version and no Content-Type Date: 17 Dec 1998 06:40:11 -0800 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035158183 14078 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:56:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:56:23 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from karazm.math.uh.edu (karazm.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.1]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA19793 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 09:42:31 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by karazm.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAB28948; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 08:42:10 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 17 Dec 1998 08:42:13 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA19495 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 08:42:05 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from mtiwmhc02.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc02.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.37]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA19783 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 09:41:57 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from reader.newsguy.com ([12.72.160.103]) by mtiwmhc02.worldnet.att.net (InterMail v03.02.05 118 121 101) with ESMTP id <19981217144120.GSIQ17244@reader.newsguy.com> for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:41:20 +0000 Original-Received: (from reader@localhost) by reader.newsguy.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id GAA00783; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 06:40:12 -0800 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Colin Rafferty's message of "17 Dec 1998 09:04:26 -0500" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070065 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.65) Emacs/20.3 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19921 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19921 Colin Rafferty writes: > Harry Putnam writes: > > > A friend helping me get mail working properly on a > > laptop I'm using, noticed my "MIME" header and commented that this is > > normally in uppercase as shown in Hrvoje's quotes: > > > My setup always shows the mime header like so: > > > Mime-Version: 1.0 > > RFC 822 (section 3.4.7.) explicitly says that case doesn't matter in > headers tags, and you can do anything you want: > > When matching any other syntactic unit, case is to be ignored. > For example, the field-names "From", "FROM", "from", and even > "FroM" are semantically equal and should all be treated ident- > ically. > > Personally, I think that capitalizing each word is the easiest to > read. Especially in my own headers. Me too. The point mentioned earlier may be some sort of agreed courtesy, rather than a hard RFC type rule. Possibly becaue there is some older software in common use that only recognizes upper case MIME. Does this ring a bell with anyone? -- Harry Putnam Running Redhat Linux 5.1