Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 09:56:55 +0000 (GMT)
From: Philip Hazel <ph10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
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cc: Jack De Winter <jack@wildbear.on.ca>,
        "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@koobera.math.uic.edu>, drums@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: blank line as head/body separator
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On Mon, 30 Dec 1996, Brad Knowles wrote:

>     Speaking for myself alone, it's basic "Be conservative in what
> you send, and liberal in what you accept."  I don't see any time
> limits necessarily placed on this.

Why is upper case conservative? Personally, I would think that there are 
far more lower case letters flying round the Internet, and that upper 
case ones were relatively rare.

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Philip Hazel                   University Computing Service,
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