Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site hou3c.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!grkermit!masscomp!clyde!burl!hou3c!Margulies@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA From: Margulies@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.mail.headers Subject: COM versus Case Sensitivity Message-ID: <840218145631.915725@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA> Date: Sat, 18-Feb-84 09:56:00 EST Article-I.D.: CISL-SER.840218145631.915725 Posted: Sat Feb 18 09:56:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Feb-84 05:57:49 EST Sender: ka@hou3c.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist) Lines: 17 Folks, We here in Multics have always wanted to see a rule that hostnames may be translated to upper case, but that the original case be preserved if possible. We are good losers, though, so the tendency to uppercase everything don't bother us too much. The random initial capitalization intruduced by, for example, YorkCOM, is a bit too much. Mit-Xx? Someone has got to be joshing me. Either we allow case of names of people and hosts to be meaningful, or not. If the answer is no, this pseudo-heuristic is pretty silly. --benson