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From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@koobera.math.uic.edu>
To: drums@cs.utk.edu
Subject: Re: blank line as head/body separator

> Other text-based Internet protocols are case independent.
> Were SMTP to became case dependent, it would be the first.

Wrong.

Counterexample 1: /W in port 79 commands. See RFC 1288.

Counterexample 2: OK in port 110 responses. See RFC 1939.

Counterexample 3: USERID in port 113 responses. See RFC 1413.

Not to mention mailbox names, filenames, and URLs.

> Quite frankly, it is difficult to take DRUMS seriously when it wastes its time
> on bogus notions such as making SMTP case dependent

It's quite difficult to take DRUMS seriously when there's opposition to
outlawing a behavior that is (1) trivial for implementors to avoid and
(2) documented to be damaging.

---Dan
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