Date: 01 Jan 1997 13:53:00 +0100
From: kai@khms.westfalen.de (Kai Henningsen)
To: drums@cs.utk.edu
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Subject: Re: blank line as head/body separator
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Organization: Organisation? Me?! Are you kidding?
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BKnowles@aol.net (Brad Knowles)  wrote on 31.12.96 in <961231113957.ZM25478@chrome.office.aol.com>:

>     Why?  If the client is automated, odds are that (in the name of
> efficiency) it will probably be written so that it consistently uses
> a single case for commands throughout.  Why not specify that all
> clients must use uppercase (one of only three options, the others
> being lowercase and some variety of mixed case)?  Wouldn't that
> simplify programming a bit?

Yes. It would simplify server programming, by relying on the case. That's  
what we *don't* want, I thought.

I don't see how client efficiency or ease of programming could possibly be  
affected by the exchange of, say, smtp_put('Mail from:'); to  
smtp_put('MAIL FROM:'); - could you explain that?


MfG Kai