From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/19918 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin Rafferty Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Mime-Version and no Content-Type Date: 17 Dec 1998 09:04:26 -0500 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 1035158181 14067 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:56:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:56:21 +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 JAA19202 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 09:05:17 -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 IAB27063; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 08:05:07 -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 08:05:11 -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 IAA18843 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 08:05:01 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from hqinbh1.ms.com (hqinbh1.ms.com [205.228.12.71]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA19196 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 09:04:52 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from uucp@localhost) by hqinbh1.ms.com (8.8.6/fw v1.30) id JAA13592 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 09:04:36 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from unknown(144.14.8.140) by hqinbh1.ms.com via smap (4.1) id xma013515; Thu, 17 Dec 98 09:04:27 -0500 Original-Received: from sag3.morgan.com (sag3.morgan.com [144.14.8.198]) by sas1.morgan.com (8.8.5/hub v1.87) with ESMTP id JAA27171 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 09:04:27 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from craffert@localhost) by sag3.morgan.com (8.8.5/client v1.15) id OAA13683; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:04:26 GMT Original-To: GNUS Mailing List X-Face: ""xJff%{>hr-{:QXl"Xk2O@@(+F]e{"%EYQiW@mUuvEsL>=mx96j12qW[%m;|:B^n{J8k?Mz[K1_+H;$v,nYx^1o_=4M,L+]FIU~[[`-w~~xsy-BX,?tAF_.8u&0y*@aCv;a}Y'{w@#*@iwAl?oZpvvv X-Y-Zippy: This PIZZA symbolizes my COMPLETE EMOTIONAL RECOVERY!! In-Reply-To: Harry Putnam's message of "17 Dec 1998 05:27:02 -0800" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070065 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.65) XEmacs/21.0(beta60) (Poitou60) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Original-Lines: 23 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19918 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:19918 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. -- Colin